How did you calculate it? The calculation should be (speed / c) * 2,500,000 years.
3 mph gives a 4 day difference. Jason On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 6:38 PM Lawrence Crowell < [email protected]> 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 >> > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b763eea7-3ebb-4c5f-93fb-b99633e42ca0n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b763eea7-3ebb-4c5f-93fb-b99633e42ca0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. 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