> On 24 Jul 2020, at 20:00, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 7/24/2020 2:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 21 Jul 2020, at 20:14, Jason Resch <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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. >> >> Actually, I did believe in that type of argument. What makes me doubt a >> little bit is the book by Palle Yourgrau (A world without time, the >> forgotten legacy of Gödel and Einstein). It seems to me that Einstein was >> well aware that SR implies the dispersion of “objective physical time”, but >> the book explains that with GR, Einstein was not convinced about that time >> disparition from physics, and that Gödel show him that this is the case, >> with his circular time solution of Einstein GR equation. So that remains a >> bit of a mystery for me. Should reread Palle Yourgrau. >> Amusingly, Einstein found an inconsistency in the US constitution, and plaid >> that it made the US possibly becoming a dictatorship. > > I thought the story was that Gödel found an inconsistency in the Constitution > and Einstein had to persuade him not to bring it up in his application for > U.S. citizenship.
You are right Brent. I meant Gödel. Yet, what happens now in the US is not a symptom of a bug in the US constitution, which in my opinion is very good, but a symptom that a president, and its acolytes, do not respect it. It is only recently that I understood that the US president is a civilian, despite being the “commander in chief of the army”. I think that in my country, the kind is also de facto the commander in chief of the army, but this means, here, that he is a military (I think). The king of Belgium would have said to Putin that he (the king) trust Putin more than his intelligence service, he would have been arrested when coming back from Helsinki, to be seriously interrogated by the Military … (theoretically, because here too, be it in academies or in press, the power of the institutions is eroded, and the bandits reign in part. I cannot swallow the vote of the Senate which acquitted Trump for his cheating in the election. That makes him right now into a dictator. He has no reason to care more on the election that he care about the coronavirus. The dictatorship seems to be there already. If Bidden win, Trump might say just “Fake News”, and Barr might sent the “police” to arrest the journalists claiming the contrary. It looks it is training that “police” in Portland …. I pray that the American Democracy and the free-world survives to this. Optimistically, I hope that we will get rid of the bandits who seem to have Trump as only last resort to protect them… But Trump has many allies, as all dictators and bandits on the planet will help him in all the illegal way possible, without mentioning the gift of Trump itself to generate chaos... Bruno > >> I strongly disagree with Gödel on this, but I did not expect a Senate able >> to dismiss second hand information as second hand, and then to dismiss the >> first hand information (in its impeachment acquitting vote). The US >> constitution is very good, including in preventing a dictatorship, unless >> those in power violate it systematically, which is what Trump and its >> acolytes do since 2016... > > Brent > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/341358ca-c727-201e-ed83-20defc9308ad%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/341358ca-c727-201e-ed83-20defc9308ad%40verizon.net?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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/D885FF3F-4DE0-4133-95B6-A3557B29B240%40ulb.ac.be.
