On 25 Aug, 11:56, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/8/24 Pat <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> > > Assuming a continuum, why do you think a future there contained is
> > anything
> > > other than a perfectly indeterminate, fluctuating, and malleable one?
>
> > That's easy!! Because I would expect it to be like every other
> > part of the continuum. I.e., as fixed as is the past. Now, if you
> > and I can somehow figure out how to change the past (NOT just writing
> > an historical yet false account), then I'll be more open to a mutable
> > future. I can't see ANY basis for thinking that the continuum works
> > differently in some parts than it does in others; it's a continuum--
> > the rules for it always apply.
>
> How does this work with multiverses? Is there a single continuum that
> encompasses all space and all time, or does each delineation of multiverse
> have a separate continuum?
>
Either is, technically, possible; however, in my opinion, a
multiverse isn't required as 'that which exists' has access to all of
time. Parallel universes gains nothing over serial universes as the
end result, the accomplishment of all that energy can do, can be
accomplished by serial Big Bangs within one entity, provided that
entity is geometrically shaped to do that. In short, I don't believe
the concept of a multiverse passes Occam's razor, as there is nothing
gained by it, as 'the One' is not pressed for time, as it were.
> > On the opposite side of that question:
> > what makes you think that there would be a difference between the way
> > the future works and the way the past works? I can see absolutely no
> > basis for it; but, of course, I can't see everything. ;-)
>
> I wouldn't presume to know how either works, Pat.
>
> Ian
Yet you DO make presumptions about how it works. Thus the line of
questions and the beliefs that underpin them. There's nothing
inherently wrong about making presumptions, so long as you've weighed
as much evidence as you have had available. Mankind, in general, has
been ignoring the philosophical implications of space-time for the
better part of a century now. How much longer will we continue to try
to fool ourselves*?
* True rhetorical question. All answers, though, will be gladly
accepted, although not all may be true. ;-)
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