Primitive materialism is a neat concept. I will havedto think about it in the context of my model.
JR From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2014 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TRONNIES - SPACE On 9 June 2014 06:50, John Ross <[email protected]> wrote: Liz, I try to respond to all of your points. In some cases I don’t understand your points. What is RM? And I don’t understand primitive materialism. Not understanding is the worst reason not to respond! You should ask! RM= Ross Model primitive materialism is the assumption that matter is fundamental, that is that it isn't derived from anything else. A person, a stone or even an atom isn't "primitive" in the standard model - they are all made of more fundamental entities. PM is the assumption that the bottom of the matter hierarchy is the end of the line in terms of the explanation of existence - that there is nothing "deeper down" than fundamental particles and space-time. I think time is absolute and the same everywhere in our Universe and it is unrelated to space which is nothing and goes on forever. Before there was anything there was nothing, i.e. just empty space. This contradicts lots of experimental results which indicate that space and time are a Manifold - a 4 dimensional continuum. In general mass-energy is conserved, but it must be possible to create new mass-energy, otherwise our Universe could not have become so large. Or exist at all. Unless of course it has always existed, in which case nothing new needs to be created. -- 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/d/optout. -- 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/d/optout.
