On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 8:18 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > This is a very mixed list! Some of these have no evidential support, some are mere speculation, and other universes with different physics is a long stretch, not at all in accordance with present knowledge. I do not reject all these possibilities, but we do need more data on some of them. None of them exist outside of space-time, however. Bruce > > 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. > -- 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.
