Liz, Yes, of course time is a dimension but that does NOT imply a block universe.
That is because only the present moment of the time dimension actually exists. This simply means the past no longer exists, and the future has never yet existed. Reality exists only in the present moment. Thus if we take the universe as a 4-dimensional hypersphere with time the radial dimension, the real actual universe is only the present moment SURFACE of that hypersphere, and DOES NOT include the past interior. I know you won't accept this model but my point is simply to demonstrate that time being a dimension does NOT necessarily imply a block universe. AND you keep claiming that both Newton and Einstein believed in a block universe but you weren't able to produce any references supporting that. Do you actually have any, or is this just an assumption on your part? Edgar On Saturday, January 25, 2014 3:18:05 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 26 January 2014 08:54, Stephen Paul King > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > > > Either way the concept of a block universe is one of the most mind > blowingly moronic ideas anyone ever came up with. It reminds me of the > ideas me and my buddies used to come up with in Jr. High School just for > laughs but which no one was dumb enough to ever take seriously. > > > But people actually do, very smart people too! > > > Even I do, so not just smart people. > > Stephen, you have to provide some reason why the block universe concept, > which was used in both Newtonian and Einsteinian physics, is wrong. Your > attempt using QM misused the concept of simultaneity, and in any case QM > works fine it you make the block universe into a block multiverse - all the > quantum probabilities come out correctly, as per Everett, from a > deterministic evolution. The fact that it's a block Hilbert space (or > whatever) doesn't stop time evolution being mapped along a dimension. That > is all 'block universe" means - that time is a dimension. > > There i > ... -- 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.
