Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:53:37 -0700, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 
>> Sure, it started 14 billion years ago, but that's 14 billion of *our* years. 
>> Time slows in a high gravity field, and squishing an entire universe into 
>> one dot is definitely going to give you a high gravity field, so maybe the 
>> first 10^-43 seconds of the universe lasted forever.
> 
> Congratulations, you've solved the mystery of the sudden inflation.

Actually, I suspect I have it backwards, tho. Time goes slower inside the 
monoblock for observers outside the monoblock. I'm not sure it goes the 
other way around, tho. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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