Re: Anti-telic?

Quoting Sai Emrys <sai@...>:

> On 7/11/06, R A Brown <ray@...> wrote:
> > But can _anything_ continue indefinitely in a temporal universe?
>
> Hey mon, that's your belief system. Don't foist it onto the grammar.
> :-) (Let alone given that we may be dealing with a conworld... I'm
> thinking, e.g. Wheel of Time series.)
>
> And even 'big crunch' ways, AFAIK it's just that we have no way to
> know what'd happen afterwards (ditto pre-'big bang'). Might be
> cyclical on a grand scale.
I'll just add that in orthodox theory, there *is* no before the big bang, and
similarly no after the big crunch. Time itself starts and ends in these points.

                                                     Andreas