Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types" Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:28:27 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <20250415072710.124@kylheku.com> References: <87y0wjaysg.fsf@gmail.com> <87cyde2vyf.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:28:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="16520bcd085ba48f48bf86c676aa114c"; logging-data="4106871"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+rQILzkQg/q97QyVZrBj7hInRkpTN5eP4=" User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.4-9 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9Z4mIgCDZNMO/gHSdJL8EDysIFw= Bytes: 2356 On 2025-04-15, James Kuyper wrote: > On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:46:22 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: > >> Humm... Is the "Big Bang' nothing more than a hyper large and rather >> local explosion? > > No, as cosmology is currently understood, it is meaningless to talk > about space or time before the Big Bang. But you're doing it now, and I perceive meaning in the sentence. > The Big Bang is the event that > starts both time and space. That makes it very different from any normal > explosion. At the moment of the Big Bang, the entire universe was > infinitely small, so literally everything was "local". Then they refactored it with globals, and here we are. World wars famines, disasters, ... -- TXR Programming Language: http://nongnu.org/txr Cygnal: Cygwin Native Application Library: http://kylheku.com/cygnal Mastodon: @Kazinator@mstdn.ca