File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2000/nietzsche.0006, message 20


Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:24:56 +0500
From: Khan <fiazk-AT-psh.paknet.com.pk>
Subject: Re: Question..


If possible, could you explain the theory (curved space-time) in laymans
terms ?

zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:10:26 +0500, nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> wrote:
> 
> >  Michal Klincewicz wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I always had the feeling that the eternal recurrence constituted a
> >  > Nietzschean cosmology/ethic. Please, bear with me on this.
> >  >
> >  > If time is to be assumed to be an indefinitely long series (a
> progression ad
> >  > infinitum) then a return to an identical 'moment' is inevitable.
> >  > Furthermore, an infinite number of these identical moments is contained
> in
> >  > the indefinite series. This sounds like the eternal accurrance to me. I
> >  > speculate that N. believed this to be the state of the cosmos, and
> >  > consequently assumed that not only identical persons in identical
> >  > circumstances will inevitably come about in it but that they will also
> do
> >  > the same silly, sheepish things all over.  Thus, this cosmology
> constitutes
> >  > a sort of an ethical prerogative to get a hold of one's 'self' and
> start to
> >  > be self-creative. If every moment is infinite, then to do otherwise is
> >  > grievious waste of time, hmm?
> >  > Whaddaya think? I am just throwing some stones out there.
> >  > -m
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> Why has no one thought of Einstein's theory of curved space-time. Clearly
> that indicates that, since time is curved, and anything curved comes back
> onto itself, that everything eventually comes around to repeating itself.
> COuldn't Nietzsche's theory be an anticipation of Einstein's theory of
> curved space-time?
> 
> Troy Camplin
> 
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