Of course there is gravity in space, the gravity field extend to infinity so as long as there is one lonely particle in the universe there is gravity everywhere. However there cannot be space without matter. That vast expanse of night time sky did not exist at the time when the whole fucking cosmos was some itty bitty mighty speck. It wasn't just sitting there empty like a beer glass waiting to be filled. It did not exist until the expanding matter of the cosmos filled it. How can that be? I don't know. And I don't know how gravity works, or the other three forces, or why there is the specific unchanging amount of matter in the universe or why an electron has the specific mass and matter it does, and as far as I know nobody else knows either,.
But they do know that the amount of matter and energy is constant, there is as much today as there was at the time of the big bang and will be after the big rip when everything will be spread out across such a large area that there will be practically nothing anywhere. And I think they know that the laws of the four forces have always been the same everywhere, though myself, I am a little suspicious of that. Cats are not great scientists but they are avid experimenters and when they get on the table and push your spare change around, which always ends up with it being knocked to the floor, what they are testing is if gravity is the same as yesterday and the same as atop the dresser in the bedroom, which they suspect it isn't, and that's why you see that mildly surprised look on their faces when the coins fall to the floor.
Old Dog senses an increase in humanity of late. Maybe. I would ascribe it to the continuing enlightenment and, ahem, the liberal agenda. In the beginning everybody else is the other, as we grow everybody outside the family and house are other, as we get out and about and meet people they become part of the inner circle, as we learn more and travel the inner circle gets bigger still and eventually we may dismiss that whole other thing and become citizens of the world, embracing folk from other lands and of different colors and religions and sexual orientations. Also in many parts of the world we are just better off materially and if you have two apples you are more likely to share one with your hungry neighbor.
We do like conflict. I guess it is in our genes. War is a terrible thing and yet until WW I it was also looked at as a jolly good time,
Uncle Ken seems to be saying that you don't judge the morality of a culture by how they treat outsiders, you judge them by how they treat each other.
I don't know where this interpretation comes from. I've been purposely avoiding judging anybody, just tracing where our idea of morality comes from and avoiding actual behavior.
Many Muslims do treat their women badly, but not all Muslims and plenty of people who aren't Muslims treat women badly, and even in the USA of a couple hundred years ago women had hardly any rights, back when we had slaves, but, as I said, I am not judging.
But it is a valid counterpoint to my proclamation of a universal morality. I guess I could claim that this universal morality is only valid in the inner circle which may be what Beagles is referring to. It seems to me the wider you push the inner circle the better you are, but that's a judgement isn't it?
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