(I'm expanding on the comment by Jason.) The "P-time" notion, if it means anything at all timelike, says that there exists some uniquely correct ordering of events across space.
Consider these events: Pam's 3rd birthday party and Sam's 4th birthday party The "P-time" notion says that either (A) P3bp happens before S4bp, (B) P3bp happens after S4bp, or (C) P3bp happens at the same time as S4bp. The "P-time" notion, having not developed in a scientific manner, can't offer any help in discovering which of A, B, or C is the case; it merely says it is the case that, in principle, exactly one of A, B, or C is true. By contrast, the past century of physics concludes that A is true in some reference frames, B is true in other reference frames, and C is true in other other reference frames. It is NOT the case that, in principle, exactly one of A, B, or C is true. So there's a direct contradiction. And "P-time" falls on the wrong side of the contradiction according to a whole century's worth of experimental work in physics. Furthermore, there is (scientific) theoretical work (c.f. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002145454.htm ) that indicates that, by exploiting quantum behavior, we should be able to build a superposition of one causal order and the reverse causal order between two events in the same location. If that pans out empirically, then the "P-time" notion won't even have the appearance of being a local approximation to the truth. -Gabe On Thursday, January 2, 2014 5:19:52 PM UTC-6, Jason wrote: > > Edgar, > > I realized there is another problem. It is not just that we don't what > Sam is doing, but it seems the present moment P-time does not proceed in an > orderly or logical manner. > > From Pam's point of view the event of her reaching Proxima Centauri > happens *before *Sam's 4th birthday. But from Sam's point of view, Pam > reaching Proxima Centauri happens *after *his 4th birthday! > > If there is a single, orderly proceeding, present moment, then I see no > what whatever to reconcile the incompatibility of these views... > > Jason > > -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
