Very good article, Jason, and explained well. I had always wondered how Besso's family could have derived "comfort" from Einstein, with his statements. It's basically his view that in the Block Universe aka Frame, things are always there. My own reading led me to how a study in physics led by Andrew Strominger (2018) and the last paper of Hawking, indicated (as seen by science writer Dennis Overbye) that information gets stored via infrared photons. I don't even know if this conflates with Einstein's view? Speaking of Brahma, it also parallels the Hindu Akashic record, or what we moderns might term, a relational database. Mitch
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Resch <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Aug 7, 2020 3:39 am Subject: Re: Interesting Read 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. -- 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/469019755.123728.1596867482329%40mail.yahoo.com.
