What god did Einstein believe in?

[Cypress]

As possible as anything else, I'm sure, but I can't personally mentally imagine a boundary with nothing outside of it or a moment with nothing before and after it.

The scientific hypothesis I tend to favor is that it's pointless to think of something outside the universe. The universe is all there is. It is the space between the galaxies of the universe that is stretching, the universe as a whole is not expanding into any preexisting space.

Time is relativistic. Our souped up chimpanzee brains perceive an arrow of time. But to a photon, time doesn't exist because it is travelling at the speed of light. So in principle, I don't have a problem imagining that my perception of time is not necessarily objectively true for all conditions.

 

[Margot]

The scientific hypothesis I tend to favor is that it's pointless to think of something outside the universe. The universe is all there is. It is the space between the galaxies of the universe that is stretching, the universe as a whole is not expanding into any preexisting space.

Time is relativistic. Our souped up chimpanzee brains perceive an arrow of time. But to a photon, time doesn't exist because it is travelling at the speed of light. So in principle, I don't have a problem imagining that my perception of time is not necessarily objectively true for all conditions.

You need to break on through to the Other side!

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Time is relativistic.

Time as measured in units of measurement is of necessity relativistic.
However, the concept of something before and after everything is independent of units of measurement,
at least in the way my perception of a mind is working.

Yet, before and after alone are still relativistic by definition.

As a geriatric, my intellectual curiosity is rapidly waning,
yet I can be moved to think about this stuff when you post about it!

Thinking that the universe is all that there is is precisely why I think that it's infinite.
If it's not infinite, there would be something outside of it, in which case it would not be a UNIverse.

What I DON'T understand is why the speed of light is regarded as a limitation on time.
I think that it theoretically is--
they don't teach that in either accounting or labor relations courses--
but we don't know for sure that something can't happen faster than that, do we?