On Friday, November 1, 2024 at 4:23:46 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:07 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> *Wheeler's answer explains nothing,* *>> I think it explains a great deal, especially considering the fact that it's only 13 words long. * *> Wheeler is just translating EFE, Einstein's Field Equation, into words.* *Just?! Well OK, if you have a profound intuitive understanding of four dimensional non-Euclidean tensor calculus and can just visualize it in your head then Wheeler's words are unnecessary, in fact everybody's words are unnecessary including mine. Are you telling us you have such an understanding?* If the curvature terms are on one side of equation, and matter/energy terms on the other, it doesn't take much understanding to reach Wheeler's conclusion. AG *> Without some rule for the emergence of an event, aka a cause, there is no way to understand it.* *Yes obviously. But if you know that something is a brute fact then there is nothing more to understand about it, so asking "why" it is a brute fact would be a silly question. And if it's not a brute fact then to understand it you need to find its cause, and then you'll want to find the cause of the cause etc; And then the "why" questions either go on forever or they don't and if they don't then they must terminate with a brute fact.* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* coc -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0df593d7-5a15-4712-a195-cf6ea4721841n%40googlegroups.com.
