Talk:Friedrich Nietzsche/@comment-3338975-20120711014828/@comment-3338975-20120711173938

Nods. Yes, Nietzche was indulging in a metaphysical thought experiment, most likely in order to purge the perspectivism inherent in all thoughts concerning "the ultimate reality" behind the operation of observable physics (which is metaphysics's domain) of what he considered spitefully low-minded and aesthetically repulsive superstitions concerning the nature of ethics. The viewpoint generally held by the "enlightened people" of his day was that the universe was an infinite expanse in both space and time, in which his thought experiment made more immediate sense; my addendum to and criticism of Nietzche was meant to bring his speculations more in line with scientific discoveries made since his day (such as that of the Big Bang and in quantum physics), and thus hopefully more in-line with a path to truth.