Besides, it's silly to say one "has" a plane of simultaneity and
therefore everything in the past of that plane is fixed. You might as
well say one has a future and therefore everything one's life is past
and therefore fixed.
Brent
"What is there? Everything! So what isn't there? Nothing!"
--- Norm Levitt, after Quine
On 7/21/2020 4:38 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
I calculated the time difference for the two observers moving,
128km/hr or about .036km/sec, that their relative time with Andromeda
is less than a second.
We have a problem with defining nothingness. Is there nothingness?
Well this implies nothingness can exist, and if it exists is is not
nothing. If nothingness does not exist then of course by definition
there is something that exists. Of course this is a bit of a semantics
game. but in QFT the closest we have to nothingness is the vacuum
state, where this can transition into a new vacuum to produce particles.
LC
On Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 1:15:08 PM UTC-5 Jason wrote:
I recently came across a paper by C. W. Rietdijk (who is perhaps
most famous for using special relativity to prove the existence
<https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Rietdijk%E2%80%93Putnam_argument> of
a pre-determined, timeless, physical reality) in 1966.
As it turns out, he was active and publishing into his 90s, and in
2018 published:
"*Four-dimensional reality continued.* The implications of the
block universe for the origin of matter, consciousness and a
possible afterlife. The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox and
its role in four dimensions"
I have found much of it to be fascinating and also in line with
Bruno's theories. For example, some excerpts:
In the beginning, there was only truth, logic and their
relation. No possible reality can do without them.
As we move from a 3D to a 4D theory of the Universe, several
crucial questions need to be asked and answered. One of the
most important of those questions concerns the creation of
matter. In this section, we deal with this question and ask
ourselves: Was matter actually created and how /real/ is it?
In 4D a Big Bang is both inconceivable and irrelevant; a 4D
universe is static—there are no changes in the time direction,
therefore a transition from a Universal Void to the existence
of matter cannot be. In both 3D and 4D, we must start from the
irrefutable fact that “something” must have always been there,
and we believe this to be the laws of nature. Voltaire’s
argument about the existence of God (No watch without a
watchmaker) begs the question who created the watch/maker/,
unless we assume that the laws of nature and the universe
created themselves. It is our firm belief that the Pythagorean
theorem needs not be created, nor the fact that the
circumference of a circle is 3.14… times the diameter; the
laws of nature and the collection of truths, values and their
interrelations are primordial and have always existed. The
fundamental stuff of the Universe in 4D consists of logic,
mathematics and natural law, which of course exist and always
have existed. It seems impossible to eliminate truths, values,
etc., from the Universe. Note that in a deterministic
conception, there is only one universe. This is the universe
that we see; a static 4D universe which is not void.
The laws of nature—which have always existed—imply that
intelligence has always existed and has always been present,
with its correlates“experience” and “Aha-erlebnis,”
perceivable to man here and now. It would seem that
intelligence must have preceded everything, but in our search
for the origin of matter, we cannot content ourselves by
simply stating that (3D) matter is produced by intelligence.
It /is/ possible from the concept of completed intelligence
(viz., intelligence including experience and the
Aha-erlebnis), to create the deceptive /suggestion/ of the
existence of matter, experienced in a collective dream,
dreamed by living, intelligent beings. This is what we
consider to be consciousness. The recognition of the
differences between patterns is an Aha-erlebnis.
The elementary particles as we know them form patterns,
including very implicit or hidden patterns. The marker points
and their patterns are the way Intelligence orders all that
exists in the world, including feelings, thoughts, colors,
sounds, etc. We hypothesize that the microparticles in the
Universe form Universal patterns, or abstract, theoretical
points that answer to the laws of nature, formulas and logical
principles; the common coordinate points in the Universe.
These points form a kind of skeleton of the grand pattern of
the collective “dream;” a blueprint or map of the Universe.
Jason
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