Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-10 Thread ronaldheld
I have problems accepting some of these approaches. It seems that he mostly uses QM without really considering GR. Without a proper theory of Quantum Gravity, it is difficult to know what approach yields correct results. Ronald On Dec 9, 1:40 pm, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09

Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-10 Thread ronaldheld
I should have added this in the previous post. it is an article about time from a different perspective. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.1604v1.pdf Ronald On Dec 10, 1:01 pm, ronaldheld ronaldh...@gmail.com wrote: I have problems accepting some of these approaches. It seems that

Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-09 Thread silky
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:25 PM, ronaldheld ronaldh...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone want to give this a try and comment?  http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.0808v1.pdf Yes; I too found it quite fascinating, I was reading it yesterday! The most I have to offer on it is that it references

Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-09 Thread Stephen Paul King
Hi Ronald, Thank you for this reference and querry for comments. I recall that this idea, of a crystalizing space-time, appears in The Maker of Dune, a collection of letters, short stories and essays by Frank Herbert - the Science Fiction writer famous for his Dune series. The following

Re: Crystallizing block universe?

2009-12-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 Dec 2009, at 11:25, ronaldheld wrote: Anyone want to give this a try and comment? http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0912/0912.0808v1.pdf He cites only Isham (very good book, by the way), for the non collapse view. it may be interesting to describe the crystallization in that