..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space

[malignd at aol.com]

This is a question with no clear answer yet, so far as I know.  Physics isn't the Bible.  But it is observable that expansion is occurring. 



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From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 6:14 pm
Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space


So what envelops space that it is expanding into?

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:09 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> True.
>
> On another note -- and I apologize if I'm saying what everyone already knows
> -- but but "space" in galactic terms is not the emptiness through which
> solids, liquids, and gases move.  Space is, for (my) lack of a better word,
> a "thing."  When physicians speak of an expanding universe, they're not
> talking about stars and planets, expanding through space: they're speaking
> of "space" itself expanding.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 5:58 pm
> Subject: Re: ..Not in the least bit Pynchonic -- space
>
> They might just be really pissed-off matter-spirits...
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
>> doesn't the splitting and fusing of atoms to create bombs show that  atoms
>> are
> "real"?



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant

 
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