Stephen, PS: And just because a couple of guys much LESS known than Minkowski claim time isn't a dimension does NOT make it so...
Edgar On Saturday, January 25, 2014 3:55:21 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear Edgar, > > Strictly speaking, no, time is not a dimension. We define sequences of > associated events to be so in our mathematical representations. > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > > 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]>wrote: > > <blockquote style="mar > > ... -- 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.
