Re: Sniping on the List

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rc> However, what is valid is to take a point of
rc> reference in time and infer a period before
rc> it. Thus before the big bang is perfectly valid
rc> whether we could perceive it or not.

It's a question of asking what existed before anything existed, though.
The answer is not even "nothing" since nothing is something.

There's also something bizarre and ironic in having Unix and Windows-based
epoc sidereal time firmly rooted in a non-event that didn't happen over 41
years ago. The irony is that Unix epoc time wraps the supposed Mithratic
Jesus birth date which also didn't happen, our computers are delusional
but also logical -- amusing.

This whole PHP thing about epoc time is amusing since there remains the
question of what frame of reference the first second of Unix time is
predicated upon. January 1st 1970 has no reality, it was never real, it
was an abritrary symbol etched in to Unix to reference how many vibrations
of an atom excited by a cessium rubidium maser in Goldstone, Colorado
there has been since an arbitrary frame of reference.



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