2009/1/9 Brent Meeker <[email protected]>: >> But in a block universe, where each frame contains all of the >> information for a particular time, the order is implicit. > > What makes it implicit?... increasing entropy? ...conformance to dynamical > laws? > These are things outside the frames. If you assume there is enough inside > the frames to order them (as a continuum model does by implicit overlap) then > that is a time order and it's meaningless to talk about shuffling or > separating > them (in what spacetime could such operations be carried out?).
Consider a simulation of an observer watching a falling stone, running on a digital computer. Does the observer have any way of knowing whether the simulation is being run serially, in parallel, on how many and what kinds of physical machines, at what speed, or in what order? -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
