On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Stephen P. King <stephe...@charter.net>wrote:
> > > Hi Jesse, > > We seem to be talking past each other. I am thinking about the notion > of time as a dimension and its origin and implications. You seem to just > assume its existence. I ask "why?". > > That's not how I interpreted our discussion--you weren't just asking "why", but making positive arguments as to why our knowledge of quantum physics should cause us to definitely reject the "block time" idea, and I was countering those arguments in a point-by-point way. My argument is not that we *must* accept block time (it's ultimately a philosophical issue that can't be definitively settled by physics), just that you are wrong to say that there is anything in QM (or relativity) which poses an intractable problem for an advocate of block time. Jesse -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
