Smolin's quantization of spacetime has been falsified buy Fermi telescope observation of gamma rays of variable energies. Presumably that includes Leibniz.
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > Leibniz's quantization of spacetime. > > > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-physics/ > > Leibniz, the Idealist 17th century german philosopher, saw the world in > suprisingly modern, even > > premoderm. In the field of electericity, the name of Tesla comes to mind. > Leibniz's conceptualHis quantization of spacetime is only now being > implemented by quantum cosmlogists such as Smolin.. > > > a) Spacetime, since it is infinitely divisible, does not qualify as a > substance, since one can always furether divide space (what one considers to > be a substance) in two. > > > b) Thus space is only dimensional and intuitive but not physical. It is thus > not absolute, as Newton saw it, but only a relative measure of distance > between bodies, this distance not being > > physical but only mathematical. It is an empty receptacle, sotospeak, filled > entirely with monads (complete, real, mental concepts of physical objects). > > > (c) Although Einstein in fact discovered the quantized notion of photons, he > did not apply this quantized thinking to his theory of relativity, in which > the speed of time was taken as relative to the speed of light, an asolute > value. > > > > (d) Time similarly was taken by Leibniz to be quantized, for God constantly > views and adjusts the universe only in discrete steps, at a very rapid > sampling rate to accord with the hanging indirectly > > perceived perceptions? of each monad. To use a homely example, it is s if the > succession of the universe were written on a deck of cards. Then as in movies > of the early twentieth century, the > illusion of continuous motion is perceived by fanning the deck with one's > thumb. > > > (e) Leibniz believed, as did Einstein much later, that space was a raceway of > possible paths, these paths curved according to the mass of the object. > > > f) That being so, we can consider a particle with mass and its possible paths > of travel, > > as a particle-spacetime quantum, even through the "particle" might be the > earth. > > > g) Due to the holographic nature of Leibniz's monadic particles, the universe > is completely entangled and one cannot change a part without changing the > entire universe. > > Thus, for example, every action creates a reaction. The spacetime field of > every particle being possible rather than actual paths, the particle and its > spacetime field is a quantum. > > Thus the universe consists of a possible universe, which is a quantum > probability field. > > > > Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] > See my Leibniz site at > http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
