On 26 January 2014 15:22, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear LizR, > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:08 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 26 January 2014 11:25, Stephen Paul King >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Dear Russell, >>> >>> I agree, this has been pointed out by many. The Schroedinger's >>> equation uses the classical concept of time. The Wheeler-de Witt equation >>> sums over all possible universes and leads to a vanishing of the >>> classical concept of time. I have pointed to a very nice paper by >>> Kitada and Fletcher <http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9408027> that discusses >>> this in detail. >>> >>> I am trying to not get stuck on the classical notion of time and >>> instead focus on what the concept is trying to denote: >>> 1) a sequence of events >>> 2) a transition from one event to another. >>> >> >> From this I picture a series of "events" - Hoylean pigeon holes, say - >> with something between them - a flashlight being moved, say - called >> "transitions". This indicates time is made of two distinct things. A sort >> of railway line of time, with "moments" clicking when you go over the joins >> between the rails, and smooth rails - "transitions" - in between each >> "event". >> > > Is that (very roughly and metaphorically) your intention? >> >> No. I don't buy the idea that events or stuffed pigeon holes or what ever > is "outthere" existing with no explanation and that our conscious > experience involves some mysterious transitioning from one set to another. > I think there we have taken the movie projector metaphor too literally... > Well, OK - so what *is* this sequence of events and transitions, then? -- 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.
