On 12/29/2013 3:18 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
Pierz,
If block time is actual and something actually exists in past times then the energy must
actually exist there and be real also. Thus a new universe of energy is being created at
every new moment of time. Energy is not being converted from one form to another but
stored in each moment of past time. Block time does violate conservation of energy. I
know there are ways people try to weasel out of this but they are not convincing.
You don't seem to grasp what "conserved" means. It means the conserved quantity is the
same at different times - not that it is zero in the past and future and non-zero now.
Block time is simply not possible, and as I've pointed out before SR and the associated
STc Principle conclusively falsify it. Not only that no one who accepts the block time
nonsense has been able to come up with any convincing physics based reason why we exist
in a present moment, or even seem to exist in a present moment
Choose a moment, a spacelike surface, in the block universe. Inspect the brain of person
at this surface. There will be complex structures that remember earlier, but not later,
moments in the block universe. Consider a slightly later moment along the world line of
that brain. There will be new structures corresponding to information from the past light
cone. That's why the brain thinks there's a present moment - it got some new (to it)
information that makes that moment different from all the previous ones.
Brent
, since you don't believe there actually is one.
Best,
Edgar
On Sunday, December 29, 2013 5:55:09 PM UTC-5, Pierz wrote:
Agreed, Liz. His bizarre misunderstandings about block time (it violates
conservation of energy) and sundry other statements exhibiting poor
comprehension of
modern physics reveal him to be exactly what you suspected early on: a
crackpot. The
question he put to you in which he asked if you ceased to exist at one
point on his
timeline reveals his basic error of logic. Everything must exist
simultaneously with
me, therefore there is a universal common present moment. Obviously that
does not
necessarily follow but Mr Owen has invested so much in his idea (he's
written a book
- self-published one might assume) that he is incapable of seriously
questioning it
any more. I guess there are two routes to genius: have a brilliant,
revolutionary
idea and convince the world, or have a wrong revolutionary idea and armour
yourself
so heavily against reason that every rebuttal merely reinforces your own
view that
you are a misunderstood visionary. Ad hominem. Mea culpa.
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