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Old 14-12-2011, 08:34 PM
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The origin of life is both dependent on a supportive environment but due to its random origins dependent on a large amount of time.
Time is a continuous variable and if fragmented into ever smaller units can be compared to a real number line with time as the variable.
The size of a time set is of the same order as that of the size of the set of real numbers, which is uncountably infinite.
Hello Rob,

In BB cosmology one uses cosmological time. It is the amount of time that has elapsed since the BB which is set at t=0. As a result cosmological time is strictly speaking a delta-t value not a time ordinate.

Cosmological time is a finite time interval.

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Steven
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