From: someone@microsoft.com   
      
   > I am tempted to "rest my case, but given Santayana's exhortation, I may   
   > not.   
      
   It has been proven worthwhile to test the self consistency of cosmology. At   
   the surface of atomic recombination, z =1091, 1/(1+z) ~ 10^(-3). This in   
   accord with GR, not SR. 10^(-3) is the relative rate of dilated time, there.   
      
   dlzc wrote, "Universal expansion, that continues to accelerate, will shred   
   even atoms.  This Universe has at minimum 125 billion years before that   
   happens, unless a Big Rip happens sooner."   
      
   We calculate human years and dog years, differently. Likewise, "125 billion   
   years" is posited in our low gravity rest frame. At the edge of the   
   observable universe, time will only have advanced ~125 million years. 125   
   million years is smaller than the rotational period of our Milky Way galaxy,   
   ~0.25 billion years. Time lost can never be recovered. There will always be   
   a discrepancy between future time and time at the edge of the observable   
   universe.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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