>Brad said: > >> Because a lemur trying to calculate the sqrt(1-((v^2)/(c^2))) >> corrections to distance measures is unlikely to have enough >> brainpower left to accurately judge whether it can leap to the next >> branch? > >Yes, those sorts of considerations are clearly why there is a difference >between our inner intuitive model of space and time and that spacetime >that actually exists out there in the world. All I was saying was that >if there really was no spacetime out there in the world and it was all >some sort of cognitive illusion then there wouldn't be such divergences >between the intuitive and "measured" structure of space and time (where >"measured" in the case in which there is no external spacetime would >have some strange meaning like "deduced from less obvious features of >our supposed sensations"). > >Rich >GCU We Are Busy Agreeing
Unless, of course, we are just simulations inside some giant-mega-hyper-nineteen-dimensional computer that is running "universe" for some purposes of its masters, in which case (a) relativistic spacetime and (b) our intuitions about space and time are both just as remote from and inapplicable to the "real" "reality" (whatever that might "be"). In short, there wouldn't be such divergences between the intuitive and "measured" structure of spacetime, unless the Old Ones put them in just for a laff to see what we would do... Great Library Saying 13825: Gubru are much improved by an orange sauce
