On 4 February 2014 17:29, <[email protected]> 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? >
Well it clearly doesn't disprove that space and time form a 4D manifold! Newtonian mechanics are a very good approximation to relativistic ones for velocities well below light speed. Similarly, a block universe with space and time separate is a good approximation to a 4D space-time manifold when velocities are well below c. > > What does it mean if something that isn't correct gets blocktime? 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? > > It isn't on the edge of the theory. It's central to SR. -- 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.
