On 2/3/2014 7:56 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I think what I'm realty asking is what is blocktime giving the world? It's giving us a deeper vision of reality (if true). But if it is objectively true, what purpose or utility does it serve, if any?
It's a model. It gives us a picture to think about and helps us apply the mathematics. And it serves that purpose, our purpose, whether it's true or not.
My experience when I ask something like that is normally puzzlement..."what do you mean what purpose/utility?' It's an implication of relativity! :o) But it's strange really. Where are knowledge is strongest, at the core of our own universe, there is no part of it that does not serve a fundamental purpose in the workings of physical law.
We invent the physical laws to describe the universe. Since we try to be complete, naturally we try to include every part we know about. In any case, at the core of our own universe there's is a black hole - and we don't know how a black hole works. GR says you can fall thru the event horizon and not ever notice it. AMPS theory says you'll be destroyed by intense radiation. And neither one of them can explain how unitarity is not violated.
If someone asked what purpose were served by neutrinos, or dark matter, or gamma rays, gravity....there would be several interpretations involving some utility in the scheme of things.
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