Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
It's self-evident that everyone has a present moment, which they will all agree is now. It's also self-evident that they have a current position, which everyone will tell you is here. Hence everyone is at the same time, and in the same place. -- You received this message because you are

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 29 December 2013 16:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, No, reality just makes a random choice, that's the computation made. But the difference between reality math and human QM math is that reality actually makes an actual choice, whereas human QM math just gives us the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
Oops apologies to Jason - great minds etc! I should have read to the end of the thread before I posted... but the question stands, regardless. On 29 December 2013 23:34, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 December 2013 16:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, No, reality

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but computable by a deterministic process? -- You received this message

Re: humans are machines unable to recognize the fact that they are machines,

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 15:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: humans are machines unable to recognize the fact that they are machines, Who wrote this? *any* ideally correct machines is unable to recognize the fact that they are machines. Bruno I would re-word it as 'Humans are not machines but

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 16:24, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 28, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, Have you gotten to Part III of my book on Reality yet? It explains how all randomness is quantum, and it explains the source of that randomness is the lack of any

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 16:51, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 28, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 04:56, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Any program, and whether

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:07, Stephen Paul King wrote: I agree with what you wrote to Richard. If we then consider interactions between multiple separate QM systems, there will be a low level where the many are only one and thus the superposition of state remains. It can be shown that at the

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:16, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 27 Dec 2013, at 17:51, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 25 Dec

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:30, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 04:39, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Jason, ISTM that the line For each program we have generated that has not halted, execute

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:35, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 04:56, Jason Resch wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi Jason, Any

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:43, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 05:27, Stephen Paul King wrote: Hi LizR and Jason, Responding to both of you. I don't understand the claim of determinism is

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 18:10, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 05:27, LizR wrote: On 28 December 2013 17:23, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, You might be able to theoretically

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 18:32, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote How many unique 1-views from 1-view are there on planet Earth right now? Bruno Marchal's answer: Bruno Marchal refuses to answer. I answered this two times already. The

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 18:43, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 07:34, LizR wrote: On 28 December 2013 19:31, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Computed how? By what? I know

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Sure the experiment that proves they are in the same present moment is they just turn around and shake hands, they just turn around and compare clocks to see whether they read the same or not. How difficult is that to comprehend? It's what people do every day of their lives. Edgar

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 19:30, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Not at all. Decoherence falsifies collapse. ? That is my point. Decoherence falsifies collapse. Exactly. Decoherence falsifies many worlds. Decoherence is just the contagion of superposed states to the observer/ environment. It

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:12, meekerdb wrote: On 12/28/2013 3:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Perhaps; but only for nano second. you real mind overlap on sequence of states, with the right probabilities, and for this you need the complete run of the UD, because your next moment is determioned by

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:19, meekerdb wrote: On 12/28/2013 3:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 04:36, Stephen Paul King wrote: I loath Kronecker's claim! It is synonymous to Man is the measure of all things. What is his claim? I am not familiar with it. God created the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, Glad we agree that decoherence falsifies collapse. That's a good start! But decoherence also falsifies MW. First of all you have to understand what a wavefunction is. It's not a physical object. It's a description of a physical object in human math. Basically in QM its formulated as the

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:23, meekerdb wrote: On 12/28/2013 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: For a long time I got opponent saying that we cannot generate computationally a random number, and that is right, if we want generate only that numbers. but a simple counting algorithm generating all

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Reality doesn't seem to have any difficulty computing the results of random choices. That's how practically all computations occur. If we assume, or define, reality as computational then reality is computing random results by definition. It's obviously something that reality math does

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, You agree No one is denying the reality of the present, just that it is the only reality. OK, that's immense progress we are making! So, the present moment does exist, and we agree on that. So now the only issue is that you presumably believe in block time, that all other moments of

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, O, for God's sakes! You believe souls exist? I thought this was supposed to be a scientific forum! Edgar On Saturday, December 28, 2013 11:24:04 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Richard and Stephen,

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:40, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, when you wrote: ...arithmetic number's dreams = physics OK? Physics is based on experience, but not on human one. And experiences are based on arithmetic/computer-science... for the 'unbiased reader ' you started to seem

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 23:15, John Mikes wrote: List: Is there a 'well' acceptable definition for R A N D O M? (my non- Indo-European mothertongue has no word expressing the meaning - if I got it right. My 2nd mothertongue (German) calls it exbeliebig = kind of: whatever I like) My position as

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Pierz, A lot of meat in your post. Thanks! I'll answer most of your questions Yes, observers observe they are in the same present moment by the simultaneity of events. Exactly, but the important point is that is the simultaneity of actual events, not of clock time readings. Observers can

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 00:28, Jesse Mazer wrote: Jason Resch wrote: indeed quantum randomness itself may only be a special case of this new type of randomness (discovered by Bruno). I don't think Bruno claims to have discovered the notion that there can be first-person randomness even in a

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 02:26, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Stephen, In a sense that's correct, they are actions and the actions are the computations, but they aren't physical, at least in the usual sense. Computations are not physical. I agree. They are arithmetical notion. But I can't understand

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bruno, I think that you are reading too much into what I wrote. Interleaving. On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 17:07, Stephen Paul King wrote: I agree with what you wrote to Richard. If we then consider interactions between

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 11:37, LizR wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but computable by a deterministic

Re: God or not?

2013-12-29 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I use Platonism, where God == Truth. So God is my dog just took a dump. God is not that much a bad name. It is a VERY bad name if someone sincerely wishes to avoid confusion and wants to use language honestly. Never

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 29, 2013, at 4:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: With Quantum Mechanics NOTHING is a wave function, that is to say no observable quantity is. The wave function is a calculation device of no more reality than lines of longitude and latitude. If you want to talk about

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 29, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, You agree No one is denying the reality of the present, just that it is the only reality. OK, that's immense progress we are making! So, the present moment does exist, and we agree on that. So now the only

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 29, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, O, for God's sakes! You believe souls exist? I do. I think many accepted and leading theories in science suggest that the soul for lack of a better word. It is that each of us has that feels and experiences, it

Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, I want to try to state my model of how spacetime is created by quantum events more clearly and succinctly. Begin by Imagining a world in which everything is computational. In particular where the usually imagined single pre-existing dimensional spacetime background does NOT exist. Now

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, O, for God's sakes. No wonder you believe in block time, MW, the nonexistence of the present moment and the tooth fairy!;-) Just wait till I present my theory of consciousness! Edgar On Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:04:31 PM UTC-5, Jason wrote: On Dec 29, 2013, at 8:19 AM, Edgar

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 14:52, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Glad we agree that decoherence falsifies collapse. That's a good start! But decoherence also falsifies MW. Non collapse = many-worlds, to me. If I make a quantum choice, by QM, I will put myself in a superposition and execute the

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 15:19, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason, O, for God's sakes! You believe souls exist? I thought this was supposed to be a scientific forum! I guess *you* take seriously some theory of soul, to be so sure that it does not exist, or could not have any sense. soul is often

Re: God or not?

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 17:14, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I use Platonism, where God == Truth. So God is my dog just took a dump. Oh! I hope your dog is OK. God is not that much a bad name. It is a VERY bad name if someone

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 2:37 AM, LizR wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net mailto:edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, To answer your last question please refer to the new topic I just started Another stab at how spacetime emergences computationally or something like that. I forget exactly how I titled it... Best, Edgar On Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:36:05 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Dec

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 5:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:23, meekerdb wrote: On 12/28/2013 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: For a long time I got opponent saying that we cannot generate computationally a random number, and that is right, if we want generate only that numbers. but a

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 5:59 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, Reality doesn't seem to have any difficulty computing the results of random choices. That's how practically all computations occur. If we assume, or define, reality as computational then reality is computing random results by definition. It's

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 6:10 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, No, it is clear that your here is not the same as mine because you are not here. However it is quite clear that you absolutely must be doing something in the exact same present moment that I write this sentence. That is the present moment that

Re: God or not?

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 8:14 AM, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: I use Platonism, where God == Truth. I know what truth means as an attribute of a sentence. But I don't know what Truth means? The set of all

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote Are faster-than-light influences involved? No. That means you think things are local. 2. When it is determined whether or not Schrodinger's cat is alive or dead? The cat is always either dead or alive. It's

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Edgar, I like Kevin Knuth's theory of emergent space time. It is far more simple and does not need to get into quantum aspects other than a basic notion of an observer. An observer is a simple entity whose state is changed as the result of an observation/interaction: A nice video of one

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 06:16, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Begin by Imagining a world in which everything is computational. In particular where the usually imagined single pre-existing dimensional spacetime background does NOT exist. How would this work? What is doing this computing,

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
Well OK, but that's *one* way in which randomness isn't quantum. On 30 December 2013 07:59, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:37 AM, LizR wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:15 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Cramer's transactional interpretation is non-local. Not really. It's slower-than-light, but retro. If you can reach the finish line of a race before you even hear the starting gun I'd say you're pretty damn fast. From

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
Not quite, violations of Bell's inequality can also be explained by time symmetry (Huw Price and John Bell, private communications). On 30 December 2013 09:05, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote Are

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Good questions. The computations take place in P-time which is the universal processor cycle in which they execute. The results of the computations compute dimensional space and CLOCK time. There doesn't have to be any notion of physical space for computations to take place within. The

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
I think I've read enough to be fairly sure that Mr Owen doesn't understand the problem. Brent just stated it uneqivocally. There is no unique mapping from one observer's present moments to another's, or to put it another way, there are an infinite number of equally valid mappings. It took

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 9:16 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, I want to try to state my model of how spacetime is created by quantum events more clearly and succinctly. Begin by Imagining a world in which everything is computational. In particular where the usually imagined single pre-existing

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 3:29 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: violations of Bell's inequality can also be explained by time symmetry (Huw Price and John Bell, private communications). I have no idea what that private communication is, but I do know that time is NOT symmetric. John K Clark

Re: How can a grown man be an atheist ?

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 9:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 29 Dec 2013, at 14:52, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Glad we agree that decoherence falsifies collapse. That's a good start! But decoherence also falsifies MW. Non collapse = many-worlds, to me. If I make a quantum choice, by QM, I will put

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
John, No. See the explanation in my new topic Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality and you will (hopefully) see why those problems are avoided... Edgar On Sunday, December 29, 2013 3:05:24 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Edgar L.

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 5:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:23, meekerdb wrote: On 12/28/2013 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: For a long time I got opponent saying that we cannot generate computationally a

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 1:28 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 5:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:23, meekerdb wrote: On 12/28/2013 4:09 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 3:05 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote Are faster-than-light influences involved? No. That means you think things are local. 2. When it is determined whether or not

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:47 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/28/2013 6:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:32 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/28/2013 4:45 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 7:12 PM, meekerdb

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent and Jason, I think that this is an important idea: the relationship between compression algorithms and numbers. It does not look like a simple one-to-one and onto map! On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 1:28 PM, Jason Resch wrote:

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 1:28 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 5:56 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 22:23, meekerdb wrote: On

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Brent and Jason, I think that this is an important idea: the relationship between compression algorithms and numbers. It does not look like a simple one-to-one and onto map! Stephen, For any

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 2:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:47 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/28/2013 6:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:32 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 2:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 1:28 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Richard, It is true I entered university aged 15 and earned my BS in math and physics with honors and a minor in philosophy aged 18. I never claimed to be a genius though. :-) And Richard, thanks again for the invite to the group! It's a good forum to try to clarify the presentation of my

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Pierz, If block time is actual and something actually exists in past times then the energy must actually exist there and be real also. Thus a new universe of energy is being created at every new moment of time. Energy is not being converted from one form to another but stored in each moment of

Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread freqflyer07281972
Might I respectfully suggest the following: 1) That when you have an obvious intuition or brilliant stroke of insight that goes against a century or more of insight from the most distinguished physicists and 2) That when you are unable to operationalize your intuition in such a way that other

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:29 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:47 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/28/2013 6:41 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:32 PM, meekerdb

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread freqflyer07281972
In order for criticism to be effective, the one being criticized must be willing to see his errors, something I think you have long ago given up. I'm afraid there is no help for you, my friend. On Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:11:59 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Richard, It is true I

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread freqflyer07281972
ALL HAIL TIME CUBE!! http://www.timecube.com/ On Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:35:10 PM UTC-5, freqflyer07281972 wrote: In order for criticism to be effective, the one being criticized must be willing to see his errors, something I think you have long ago given up. I'm afraid there is no

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 1:28 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 2:25 PM, meekerdb

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 3:31 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:29 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:47 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 3:49 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Pierz, Liz and Frequent Flyer, Jeez, you guys, this seems to be becoming a matter of sacred religious dogma to you and someone who doesn't agree deserves to burned at the stake! Lighten up guys and take a deep breath, they're just theories! :-) Edgar On Sunday, December 29, 2013 5:55:09 PM

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 12:57, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Well Mr. Owen used the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on earth... but by a miracle (that only he knows) he feel compelled to overwhelm us with his truth and his

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 12:03, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: PS: You can blame me for Roger as well. You're a wicked, wicked man! But fear not, you bring 'em on and the assembled brainpower around here will shoot them down. (Must.resist.schadenfreude.) -- You received

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 11:55, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously that does not necessarily follow but Mr Owen has invested so much in his idea (he's written a book - self-published one might assume) that he is incapable of seriously questioning it any more. Sigh. That was my first

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 13:02, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Pierz, Liz and Frequent Flyer, Jeez, you guys, this seems to be becoming a matter of sacred religious dogma to you and someone who doesn't agree deserves to burned at the stake! Lighten up guys and take a deep breath, they're

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 09:35, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Good questions. The computations take place in P-time which is the universal processor cycle in which they execute. The results of the computations compute dimensional space and CLOCK time. So an external time dimension

Re: humans are machines unable to recognize the fact that they are machines,

2013-12-29 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:42:20 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 28 Dec 2013, at 15:40, Craig Weinberg wrote: humans are machines unable to recognize the fact that they are machines, Who wrote this? *any* ideally correct machines is unable to recognize the fact that they are

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, All, Once we accept the obvious observable fact that we share a common present moment when we are together we need to take the next step and establish that we also share a common present moment when we are separated in space. Only if we can prove that can we establish that the present

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 4:07 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 12:57, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com mailto:allco...@gmail.com wrote: Well Mr. Owen used the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on earth... but by a miracle (that only

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread freqflyer07281972
Far from it, really;-) I assure you, I wish you no burning at any stakes, whether literal or figurative. You are perfectly entitled to be as incorrect as you wish, especially in an area as solidly established as relativistic physics. It's just that (a ma parte, at least), I feel a bit bad for

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 4:37 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 13:02, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net mailto:edgaro...@att.net wrote: Pierz, Liz and Frequent Flyer, Jeez, you guys, this seems to be becoming a matter of sacred religious dogma to you and someone who doesn't agree deserves

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
Once more unto the breach... On 30 December 2013 14:19, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Step 1: Two observers stand together with the same clock times on their watches and shake hands. By direct observation they confirm they share both the same actual present moment time, and the same

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 30 December 2013 14:22, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 4:07 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 12:57, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: Well Mr. Owen used the 101 crackpot dictionary... he knows the truth (since so long) and we are the dumbest people on

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Hi Brent, No conserved doesn't mean all the energy of every moment remains in that moment which is somehow still real. What it means is that when it is recomputed in every moment none of it is lost. The only energy that exists exists in the present moment, and it is always (in the same frame)

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, I give a detailed answer to your question in my new topic on Another shot of how spacetime emerges from computational reality. Best, Edgar On Sunday, December 29, 2013 8:36:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 12/29/2013 4:37 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 13:02, Edgar L. Owen

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 4:41 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 09:35, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net mailto:edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Good questions. The computations take place in P-time which is the universal processor cycle in which they execute. The results of the computations

Re: Dear Edgar Owen

2013-12-29 Thread John Mikes
I don't intend to play DA or Defense just muse about the 'firmness' of a temporary scientific belief (even supportable by tests using instruments - or theories - based on the acceptability of those beliefs). There were 'centuries' with scientific belief of the Geocentric pattern - when Copernicus

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 5:19 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All, All, Once we accept the obvious observable fact that we share a common present moment when we are together we need to take the next step and establish that we also share a common present moment when we are separated in space. Only if we can

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, I have a persisting question. How is is that we can get away with using verbs (implying actions) when we are describing timeless entities? On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:59 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 4:41 PM, LizR wrote: On 30 December 2013 09:35,

Re: What are wavefunctions?

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 6:52 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 3:31 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:29 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:01 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:47 AM, meekerdb

Re: Another stab at the universal present moment - a gedanken..

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: All, All, Once we accept the obvious observable fact that we share a common present moment when we are together we need to take the next step and establish that we also share a common present moment when we are

Re: Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Brent, I have a persisting question. How is is that we can get away with using verbs (implying actions) when we are describing timeless entities? In the same way we can say that y increases as x

Re: Bruno's mathematical reality

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 6:58 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 3:49 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:42 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:08 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 4:51 PM, meekerdb

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