2014/1/15 Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> > Liz, > > Do you know what my argument is? Quentin also claimed it was invalid but > he couldn't tell us what the argument is that he claims is invalid. >
You're joking ? I didn't ? I explicitely refer your BS common universal present which is contrary to what SR *claims*... How arrogant can you be ? Quentin > Do you know? > > Edgar > > > > On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:41:43 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > >> On 16 January 2014 07:26, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Jason, >>> >>> 1. First I demonstrated that SR falsifies block time (by requiring a >>> moving arrow of time and a present moment), so since SR is well verified >>> block time is false. >>> >> >> SR doesn't require a moving arrow of time, and the present moment is only >> defined for a given location in space-time. >> >>> >>> 2. I asked you around a dozen questions each homing in on another >>> problem with block time. I received no convincing answers to any of them >>> that I recall. Basically you just told me they weren't really problems >>> without giving any reasons why not. >>> >> >> Since your point 1 is false, you couldn't have asked any meaningful >> questions. >> >>> >>> 3. Then I asked you to clarify a couple of aspects of the structure of >>> block time (e.g. is it a continuum or sequential frames) which you were >>> unable to provide. >>> >> >> In SR it's a continuum. >> >>> >>> Please understand I'm not singling you out here. The problem is not so >>> much with your explanations as with the theory itself which is just not >>> tenable and which of course you are not responsible for.... >>> >>> As far as I know, the idea of block time was proposed by Newton (I think >> he called it the sensorium of God, or something like that) and was later >> used by Laplace, Einstein and Minkowski. >> >> Since your point 1 is false, you failed to falsify block time. If you >> *can* show that SR requires a moving arrow of time, or whatever, then SR >> may invalidate block time, but it hasn't yet. >> >> -- > 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. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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.
