On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 4:34 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 4:21 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 19 Dec 2018, at 12:59, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Dynamics is the study of matter in motion. There are no clocks in >> arithmetic. >> >> Of course there is clock. The successor function implements it out of >> time and space. >> > > The fact that you can use one ordered sequence to index another ordered > sequence does not constitute a clock. > > Nothing exists out of time and space, not even time and space themselves. > > Accordingly, you must reject: - Membranes - String theory landscape - Eternal inflation - The inside of black holes (yet another observer-dependent phenomenon) - Other universes with different physics (it's amazing that our universe allows for life, assuming it's the only universe that exists) All of these ideas have at least some motivation/support. Why reject them out of hand? Jason -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
