On 17 Feb 2011, at 04:39, Jason Resch wrote:
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:47 PM, m.a. <[email protected]> wrote:
Given modern physics and cosmology, does Nietzsche's idea of
"eternal return" have any validity? m.a.
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In a few ways I think it could be argued that it does. One is the
oscillatory universe idea, which will happen if the mass of the
universe is below a certain threshold or if the expansion rate is
not constant and will decrease. Currently it seems to be
accelerating, however. It is theorized (I think by Loop Quantum
Gravity or string theory) that at a point when all the matter in the
universe comes to a single point (or close to that) gravity will
momentarily reverse and cause a new expansion. According to the
holographic principle, there is a finite number of ways the matter
in a finite volume of space can be arranged, so eventually the
pattern will repeat.
Also, by eternal inflation you could say there are an infinite
number of big-bangs, and again some of them would be duplicates of
the observable universe.
Lastly, you might argue that relativity's proposal of a 4-
dimensional space-time means we are always in every moment, which
perhaps has similar implications to the idea of living every moment
of one's life an infinite number of times.
And in UD-time (defined by the computing steps of the UD) eternal
return is guarantied. Nothing is more repeating and innovating than
the super-redundant UD* (which makes hope for the elimination of the
WR, by inflation of normal "worlds"). people can look at the
Mandelbrot set, also.
Of course, this is not "given modern physics". It is "given digital
mechanism".
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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