Thread: If matter cant be created or destroyed, where did all this stuff come from?

Change exists - yes, a good term. I know change exists because I have coffee cups filled with it nyuk nyuk! I also know space exists because I always see it for rent on billboards. But according to a lot of ads time is running out!

Ok, I'll quit trying to be bootleg George Carlin..

Certain of these changes are regular and cyclic in nature, like the orbit of planets and moons, change of seasons etc, which has allowed us to set up timelines by which to regulate other less cyclic events so we can more effectively utilize our time. We do this the same way we measure space mostly - by drawing a line with regularly spaced marks on it - but in the case of time we usually bend that line into a circle and call it a clock or cut it into segments that we stack into a grid we call a calendar. But what these tools do is simply record when the moon or earth reach certain points in their orbits/rotations - providing a known temporal point against which we can guage other unknown events (meet me at the blue spruce when the sun goes down etc). So our measure of time is simply an extension of the measurement of space which allows us greater control and accuracy over our lives by specifying the positions of moving objects as well as the spacial coordinates of those objects.

And Sage, you've proved change is real, even for a stubborn old billygoat like you!!
(and me too!)