On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 4:39:42 AM UTC, Brent wrote: > > On 2/3/2014 8:29 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > Liz - I was just thinking. If Newton's world predicted a variant of > blocktime. What is > > that saying, given Newton's world wasn't correct? Or was it based some > aspect that is > > correct? > > But is the sense that blocktime comes out of newton's world, compatible > with > > relativity? Are both legitimate equivalent representations of the same > consistent thing? > > Or is the Newton in fact no longer thought correct. > > The block universe just means taking space+time to be a 4D manifold so > that every point is > labelled by four numbers that are smooth functions. It can be used to > picture Newtonian > dynamics, special relativity, general relativity, and other theories. > It's just a way of > designating events (t,x,y,z). > > > What does it mean if something that isn't correct gets blocktime? > > There's no problem with false things implying true ones; in fact > falsehoods imply everything. > > > Is that strengthening the case for blocktime or raising a doubt that it > is objectively > > real, given it arises as an artefact of the same kind of interpretative > activity on an > > edge of a theory? > > Is it objectively real that we can label every point on the Earth's > surface with a > latitude and longitude? > > Brent > I had been assuming blocktime was sort of hard linked to relativity of simultaneity in relativity in some sort of 1:1 unique pairing. But in fact it's a general idea for a representation Which we decide at some point the better explanation for reality. So do you think block time is what is inferred as a reality by each of these space and time variants?
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