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Re:John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017) by TedDoesntTalk on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:48AM (#32806518)
> So really, time started when reality started wobbling

“It’s all wiggles” —- Alan Watts

Re:John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017) by russellbeattie on Monday September 12, 2022 @03:54AM (#32807279)
I never heard of him before! He was definitely into wiggles. And psychedelics apparently.

> "But the real world is wiggly, wiggly, wiggly. Now when you have a wiggly system like a cloud, how much wiggle is a wiggle? Well, you have to draw the line somewhere. And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it.”

He and Schrödinger would have had a blast together.

Re:John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017) by TedDoesntTalk on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:17AM (#32811631)
Many of his lectures are on YouTube (audio only). I hope you enjoy him. He’s a great entertainer/speaker.