ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[David Morris]

On 4/6/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>        ya Sam:
>        But that would be a very long instant if
>        we're talking about millions of light years,
>        right?
>
>        Monte Davis:
>        In a reference frame moving at the
>        speed of light in a vacuum, the
>        entire history of the universe is
>        instantaneous. One instant.
>        There is no time.
>
> 6.2 Timelessness and Spacelessness
>
> Yet Zen thinks that the preceding is still a partial understanding of "here and now."

Well, after Ya Sam's last post where he found this line,  "Photons
live in the eternally instantaneous "here and now," Zen was the
obvious next step.  Clearly quite a few others have made this
connection a long time ago (but not me).

David Morris