Chiroptera writes:
Hello, happy_atheist (although, according to some you are not really an atheist, nor really happy.)
Yeah, I originally chose this nickname for yahoo to see how many people would tell me that i'm neither
It's also good for answering the two most common questions in there, "How are you?" and "What religion are you?"
Chiroptera writes:
The usual analogy is a globe, and the north-south direction representing time, and the north pole being "time zero". Since there is no earth north of the north pole, nor south of the south pole, then all existing latitudes represent a part of the earth, just like all possible time coordinates represent a time in the universe, ie, the universe has always existed. Kind of a tautology, if one properly defines "always existing", but one that I like.
Yes, I like that one too. First saw it in Hawkings Brief History Of Time book.