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Re: Present
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To: kartik@eng.auburn.edu (Sankar Jayanarayanan)
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Subject: Re: Present
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From: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu>
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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:38:19 -0500 (EST)
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Cc: srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu (srh)
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In-Reply-To: <199604021522.KAA12573@culbertson.ecn.purdue.edu> from "Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian" at Apr 2, 96 10:22:07 am
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Resent-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:01:38 -0500 (EST)
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Resent-From: SRH Editor <srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu>
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Resent-Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960402220138.13576E@rbhatnagar>
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Resent-To: Ajay Shah <ajay>
Sankar Jayanarayanan <kartik@eng.auburn.edu> wrote:
> According to the general theory of relativity, space and time are dependent on
> the existence of matter.
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> As Einstein said(I read this in the book "This fascinating astronomy"),"People
> before me believed that if all the matter in the universe were removed, only
> space and time would exist. My theory proves that space and time would disappear
> along with matter."
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> I checked up with a friend of mine who's a whiz at physics: seems the existence
> of space-time (in general relativity) is firmly connected with the existence of
> matter. One cannot exist without the other.
>
You have answered your own question. In a previous post you said that Kant
claims time is inherently in the mind. Einstein contradicts him. Actually time
is a creation of the mind. So is matter.
Rama.
