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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