On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:43 AM, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
Point one. I do not presuppose the existence of a single god who is omnipotent. After all, if you believe in one omnipotent god, it doesn't take any leap to believe that that number may be more than one. I tend to write without the use of capitals at times.
There can be only one. Or if you've already mastered oneness, you could move on to two-ness, I suppose. (cf Woody Allen)
You assume my religious beliefs, but you're not correct.
Polytheistic, I suppose?
Point two. It is I believe a fallacy to claim that a group of atoms can be crushed. What you are crushing is the space between the atoms. Once you have crushed them beyond that point, they tend to dissociate and become simply a neutron ball with no protons, perhaps an electron cloud or something surrounding the ball I suppose. I would think the electrons would rather scatter or something. Can you crush a neutron ball further? I'm not personally very happy with the solutions to the issue of the black hole problems, but there you go.
Er, that's why I indicated that both the conglomerate being crushed be of sufficient mass - such as to have crumbling effects - and that the ones doing the crushing be "sufficiently more massive" than the one being crushed. There's an physical equilibrium thing going on where collisions between objects that are too small to generate sufficient gravity, won't break any atomic bonds.
-Stevertigo