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Message in Pie

Posted by: Ryan Close on October 17, 1999 at 17:39:00:

In Reply to: Why the obsession with beginnings? posted by septimus on October 16, 1999 at 12:06:03:

: Why the obsession with beginnings?

Stephen Hawking is convenced that the universe began in a singularity. Once he thought it would end in black holes but now he does not think there is enough matter in the universe to colapse it. In fact some recent studies show that the universe is not just expanding but that it is actualy accelerating. In his book, A breif history of time, Hawking said that if we ever answered the question [about the nature of the universe and why we are here] then we would know the mind of God. I am always fasinated by the Atheists who come up with all the good reasons why God should exist and doesn't. Carl Sagan for instance, in his book Contact, he sugested that in numbers with infinitly long decimlals like pie, could actualy have a message encoded with in them. The numbers should be compleatly random, no number should appear any more than another. Imagin the number stream goes like this. ...8410478392657105482084611570127453829018893787645861239171634720010001110110001110101011100110110001111010101010010001010101010001110101... what would that mean. Pie is a constant just like 1+1=2 so who ever put the message in pie would have had to have had a hand in the creation of the universe. And we do find a message, the Tao. I know the beginnings arguments do not work, they are intresting, but they are not conveincing. I said all of that before.
-Ryan-




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