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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