Re: A unique number for every "person" - can it be done?

From: Tim Rentsch (txr_at_alumnus.caltech.edu)
Date: 04/05/05 

Date: 05 Apr 2005 13:26:12 -0700

Gerry Quinn <gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie> writes:

> In article <d2rtpq$dt6$1@nntp.fujitsu-siemens.com>,
> volker.hetzer@ieee.org says...
> > "Gerry Quinn" <gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:MPG.1cbb812caccd333d989fa1@news.indigo.ie...
>
> > > For a start, the phrase 'came from' implies that there was a time when
> > > the universe didn't exist - but how could time exist under such
> > > conditions?
>
> > It doesn't imply "time". Right now, no one knows what happened, except
> > that the universe does have a finite age.
>
> Well, we don't really know that, as such. We know that the universe
> was once hot and dense, and the FRW metric that models it in general
> relativity has a singularity at a finite time in the past. But that
> may just reflect a breakdown in general relativity, and many
> cosmologies have been proposed in which time extends backwards past the
> Big Bang.
>
> [65 lines of similar discussion snipped]

Just a question - is it too much to ask that this extended discussion
of physics/metaphysics be taken to a more suitable newsgroup? None of
the three current newsgroups (sci.math, sci.crypt, comp.programming)
seem like the right place for this discussion.

Thank you.

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