John Wager writes: : This is a multi-part message in MIME format. : --------------040908080809090202010302 : Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed : Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit : : Andy Amago wrote: : : > : > . . .There was a big bang. There was no matter before the big bang, : > only unimaginably condensed energy. As the energy exploded, in that : > first trillionth of second (or something like that), the energy began : > to cool and precipitate out into matter. AS I understand what physicists are saying, both time and space were "created" in the big bang, so there could have been no time before them. That condensed energy existed at the start of the big bang, not before then. -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html