On 2/22/2014 3:20 PM, [email protected] wrote:
What if Einstein's reference frames ( does anyone else get the credit for this term?)
function because reality is what I call Virtuality? Its the old simulation argument,
served up by myself, today. Someone who has worked arduously on this concept over the
last, few, years, is mathematician, Brian Whitworth in New Zealand, and if anyone has
the time, interest, and patience, to learn about his own theory of Virtual Reality
(again, Virtuality) I will present it here. I believe it dovetails with the Block
universe view of how spacetime works and is best measured. But it does take both
special, and general, relativity as well as the quantum, in a very, different,
direction. Here is his latest paper, dated, Jan 24, 2014. His earlier papers can be
downloaded on ARXIV, of course, as well as his discussions on the FQXI.
Sincerely,
Mitch
http://brianwhitworth.com/BW-VRT1.pdf
Well right off I see he got the quotation wrong. It's J.B.S. Haldane's, "It is my
supposition that the universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than we
can imagine."
He complains for two pages that modern physics can't be right because it's not
comprehensible. But he never explains what "comprehensible" means or why it disqualifies
theories. I think what it really means is "like good old Newtonian mechanics". But when
explicated it no longer sounds like such a good criterion. He writes "What quantum theory
describes is in every way physically impossible" - but only under naive Aristotelian and
Newtonian physics.
He claims the virtualism "is consistent with physics" - but which physics? The physics he
objects is impossible and incomprehensible? As a matter of fact yes. That's the physics
he cites in describing what virtualism "Has" or "Allows". Notice he doesn't use
"predicts"; and that's because virtualism is like theism, it "has" and "allows" anything
at all.
After eight pages of logical non-sequiturs, I lost patience.
Brent
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