Latest post in my blog on popular science:
Inventing worlds
https://populscience.blogspot.com/2024/08/inventing-worlds.html
Regards,
Thank you, Manuel, for a very interesting post. Whether we humans living in time can ever explain time except in its most elementary attributes is a question for discussion. As a Judeo-Christian, the words “In the beginning” establish time as we know it as created by God with both irreversible linear and cyclic aspects: stars and moon mark off passages of time and seasons rhythmically re-occur year after year in the beautiful Creation hymn of Genesis 1.
The giant Time in the Last Battle squeezing out the sun has always bothered me a little since I do not find evidence in Scripture that “time will be no more” but rather that time will be different and experienced differently. Even to say or sing the word “Alleluia” requires time to utter the syllables in sequence. Thus, not only matter but also speech seems to require time as a necessary condition for its existence.
Pondering these things in my heart,
Ruby
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Lewis perhaps thought that in the other life we’ll be moved to eternity. Being “eternal” is not the same as being “everlasting,” as Boethius observed 1500 years ago (we should be remembering his death this year).
I personally believe that we’ll be moved to a different universe with a different time, at least as an intermediate step.
However, Lewis could just be saying that the sun, as well as our universe, will reach its end sooner or later (i.e. the giant Time will make it end).
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