[Avodah] Time and Emunah

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

>From http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/in-no-time:

"Efforts to understand time below the Planck scale have led to an
exceedingly strange juncture in physics. The problem, in brief, is that time
may not exist at the most fundamental level of physical reality. If so, then
what is time? And why is it so obviously and tyrannically omnipresent in our
own experience? "The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in
contemporary physics," says Simon Saunders, a philosopher of physics at the
University of Oxford. "The situation is so uncomfortable that by far the
best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic."

"The trouble with time started a century ago, when Einstein's special and
general theories of relativity demolished the idea of time as a universal
constant. One consequence is that the past, present, and future are not
absolutes."



I leave it to the philosophers on-list to discuss What this actually means
in terms of Yiddishkeit. Sent to Areivim and Avodah, please direct responses
where appropriate.

KT,
MYG