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Old 06-19-2003, 09:14 PM  
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I don't think this proves the sound/light relationship right or wrong, but one time I had the oppurtunity to sit down at Outback with the editor of a book by Richard Gott (who proposed string theory around 1985)...called 'Time Travel in Einstein's Universe .'

He explained time not as your picturing it, but as an additional dimension that we are passing through. We live in a 3 dimensional world, but pass through a 4th dimension (time.)

He gave an example of a stick figure on a peice of paper that lives in a 2 dimensional world, x and y, but doesn't recognize a 3rd dimension that also exists, z. Let's say that paper had the curvature of the earth...and the stick figure ran in on direction on that paper for a long, long time, around the paper...eventually he would appear at the same place he started. He would be clueless as to how he travelled straight in on direction and ended up at his starting place, because he couldn't comprehend the 3rd dimension existed. Supposedly, this is similar to how time interacts with us.

I don't know if this helps prove the Ice Cream theory right or wrong, but had to put in my as I put this Cherry Garcia away...

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