Re: On Eternal Recurrence
Steven E. Callihan (callihan@callihan.seanet.com)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:46:12 -0700 (PDT)
>In einer eMail vom 10.08.1997 20:10:31 MEZ, Steve:
>
><< ...he mother of all Black Holes!). There is also a paradox hidden here, in
> that the same event repeated infinitely would be _identical_ to the same
> event occuring only once! The paradox would have to do with time, it seems
> to me. Thus the eventual collapse of all matter back into the Mother of All
> Black Holes, back to the absolute zero-point of all space, would itself
> amount to the absolute cancellation of time. Time would have cancelled
> itself out! Thus, the repetition would be the exactly same event (Big Bang
> _redux_), again! Then again! Etc. But each time (!) the same identical event
> all over again, down to the smallest detail, because it _is_ the same even
>>>
>
>Well,
>
>it is obviously that I'm also not of your opinion, a perfect repetition I
>think impossible. Your stating that after contraction the exactly new
>identical event should occur all over again seems to me mere fiction. When
>there is nothing why should there arise something again, and then exactly the
>same?? Your statement is not convincing.
>
>-Litok
Not arguing that it is such, but simply trying to articulate the conditions
that might be necessary for it to be. In fact, that an absolute repetition
is indistinguishable from the same event occurring only once seems to me to
be a pretty strong argument _against_ the cosmological interpretation of the ER.
Lambda C: Sorry, you bit on this one too, hook, line, and sinker!
Best,
Shorthand Steve
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