On 4 February 2014 12:44, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Liz, > > You keep repeating your UNSUBSTANTIATED claim that both Newton and > Einstein believed in block time. >
It isn't a question of belief. Newtonian and Einsteinian machanics both imply the existence of a block universe. I've repeatedly asked you to substantiate this claim with some actual > quotes from them but you have been unable to do so. > Please provide quotes substantiating this or withdraw the claim. That's > only fair... > Obviously Newton didn't use that phrase. Equally obviously it's implied by his equations, as Laplace realised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. --Pierre Simon Laplace, *A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities*[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon#cite_note-Truscott-3> Einstein's equations shows that space-time is a 4D manifold, as Minkowski pointed out. His "canonical" quote on this is: The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung > from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. > They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are > doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two > will preserve an independent reality. > > -- Hermann Minkowski > Otherwise, just read papers on the subject of SR. It isn't a secret that SR treats space-time as a 4D manifold. Here is an introduction to the subject: http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/minkowski.html -- 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.
