truth. reporter: sister marlene hopes that s true, but there is no turning back. i don t think that that happens in any kind of living organization. god doesn t turn the church, doesn t turn creation in opposite directions. in other words, there is no turning back the clock for american nuns. i was just reading through some of the blog comments that we got in earlier this morning. cnn.com/amfix if you would like to comment on this story. and drew and kiran, many interesting comments are coming in as usual. this from peter. is this just a ploy to divert attention from the problem priests have? should that questionnaire been sent to the priests? perhaps the church should start focusing on bringing back its block. as a young practicing catholic woman, i support the church in the investigation of religious sisters. it should not be taken defensively as if the church assumes religious women are doing something wrong, but rather it should comfort
yeah. well, the question of time is also one that you have to be careful about, because one of the intuitive ideas that we have is a newtonian theory of time and space. it s a framework. time moves forward in the linear fashion and what we do doesn t effect time and space. einstein found under certain extreme conditions you have to take into account how the actors on the stage interact. time and space aefect each other. as you go back in time, when the universe is very, very small, time ceases to have the meaning we think of it as having today. you can t really go back, you can t follow time backwards like it s a railroad track to get to the station and it s the beginning. that question of what s times zero is a difficult question to phrase. larry: we ll come back with more, more of your blog comments, too.
also one that you have to be careful about, because one of the intuitive ideas that we have is a newtonian theory of time and space. it s a framework. time moves forward in the linear fashion and what we do doesn t effect time and space. einstein found under certain extre extreme conditions you have to take into account how the actors on the stage interact. time and space aefect each other. as you go back in time, when the universe is very, very small, time ceases to have the meaning we think of it as having today. you can t really go back, you can t follow time backwards like it s a railroad track to get to the staetion and it s the beginning. that question of what s times zero is a difficult question to phrase. larry: we ll come back with more, more of your blog comments, too.
13 minutes past the hour. the tea party movement cutting ties with one of its most visible leaders. mark williams and his tea party express group have been expelled by the national tea party leadership. at issue is williams blog comments on race that were controversial and to many outright racist. cnn s jim acosta is following developments this morning. he s live in washington. so explain the significance of the tea party federation giving the tea party express the boot. well, you know, it s sort of like one of these tea party groups getting booted off the bus, you might say, kiran. all of this started last week when the naacp condemned the tea party movement for some of the racially insensitive signs and language used at some tea party rallies. that prompted mark williams, a leader of the tea party express, to write what he thought was a
going to happen with it and try to improve that economy in that section of manhattan. let s do this. let s get some folks at home, wherever you are right now, to weigh in on this at the blog, cnn.com/tony. josh, help us work through some of these blog comments later on. thank you. day 86 of the gulf oil disaster and bp plans to test a new cap on the busted oil well. well, that plan is on hold right now. officials say they need to review the testing procedures before they move forward. the hope is that the massive custom designed cap might contain the flow of oil or allow most of it to be captured. but tests could also reveal more damage to the well. lots of questions for bp about the delay in testing the cap and several operations overall, really. complaints about the claims process and other issues. chief operating officer doug suttles is taking questions at a media roundtable in destin, florida right now. we hope to speak to him later in