On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jesse, > > Come on now. The well established fact that it is impossible to always > establish CLOCKTIME simultaneity of distant events does NOT require or even > imply block time. > Einstein just says there is no "simultaneity of distant events", he doesn't suggest that there's some alternative to "clocktime simultaneity" which he believes in. As I understand it you definitely believe that there is such a thing as simultaneity of distant events, since you think there's a definite yes-or-no answer to whether they happen at the same p-time. And I guess you're going to just ignore my point about the obvious meaning of a sentence of the form "we should think of physical reality as A instead of, as hitherto, as B", that such a sentence is endorsing A and rejecting B as outdated? No surprise there, you always seem to just drop the discussion once it goes down a line you'd have trouble answering without damaging your position (as with the issues I asked you to address at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/everything-list/jFX-wTm_E_Q/BaKE8Sq-fN8J-- another post you simply ignored). > > What it actually implies is that everything is MOVING in clock time and if > things actually move in clock time that is the opposite of block time. > Nothing moves in a block universe. > I have no idea what "moving in clock time" could mean (wouldn't "moving" in a time dimension require a second "meta-time" dimension to keep track of "changes" in an entity's position in the first time dimension?), or why you think a lack of absolute "clocktime simultaneity" should "imply" this. But if you'd care to explain in detail I would be happy to address the argument. Jesse -- 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.
