On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:39 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 7/21/2020 9:13 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:47 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On 7/21/2020 7:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 7:11 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> Rietdijk and Hilary Putnam both argued relativity implies determinism and >> existence of all points in time. Minkowski, Einstein, Penrose all supported >> the idea. Feynman diagrams and his explanation of antimatter imply the >> existence of the future. >> >> Strange, yes, it's not how we evolved to interpret reality. But I >> wouldn't say it's silly, I think it's an inescapable conclusion of the four >> dimensional reality implied by relativity. >> >> >> But all it proves is that there are coordinate values there. It doesn't >> prove anything about determinism. >> >> Brent >> >> > If there is an objective reality beyond our immediate local vicinity, and > if there is no privileged reference frame, then your present and my present > contain different content. > > > You're assuming your present has some great extent, which is unjustified. > Hi Brent, I put together an article, along with some animated diagrams to show how relativity implies four-dimensionalism and existence of many time-separated events: https://alwaysasking.com/what-is-time/ I welcome any feedback/corrections in case I got anything wrong or misrepresent anything. 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/CA%2BBCJUhU42QHRLZEwW9AC6e0KocS54YRr%2BiOBt0KAb6A0XJECQ%40mail.gmail.com.
