X-Message-Number: 16374 From: Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 12:56:51 EDT Subject: Eternal life? no thanks! Eternal life? no thanks! The basic promise of most religions is : you get eternity as a reward. Be a dope, I accept that promise as a fact. Have faith in God and you get eternity, so much people said that that it must be true. So, what is eternity? There is a strange property of the Universe: It seems empty, with no mass or energy. Well you may think you are the proof of the contrary, but you are only locale and the same applies to everything you can see. The nothingness comes from a strange property of gravitation: Its potential energy is negative. The sum of the rest mass and the potential energy is precisely zero. Why we see something here where must be nothing? The answer is that the negative potential energy expands to infinite and the speed of light (or gravitation) is finite. It takes then an infinite time to feel the effect of the full potential energy. In other words, if the universe is not void, it is because it has a finite age. To ask for eternity is another way to ask for nothingness. So, no thanks, I don?t want eternity :-) Yvan Bozzonetti. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16374