Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Edgar, I already wrote up one argument against the concept of a universal present moment using the general covariance requirement of GR. Did you read it? It is impossible to define a clock on an

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/15/2014 10:59 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, spudboy...@aol.com mailto:spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Ok, speculatively jumping into the Tegmark book, which I am plodding through and his 4 levels of the multiverse, I need to throw out this question. Is it

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Hi Jason, Yes I do have an explanation for how GR effects are computed. Thanks for asking. It's refreshing to just have someone ask a question about my theories rather than jumping to attack them. Much appreciated... The processor cycles for all computations are provided by P-time (clock time

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, I do not think that block time is a coherent idea. It assumes something impossible: that a unique foliation of space-time can be defined that correlates to a specific experience of an entity that is said to be embedded in the block. My argument is that the entire way that time is

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/15/2014 10:59 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Ok, speculatively jumping into the Tegmark book, which I am plodding through and his 4 levels of the multiverse, I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, I would agree with your idea here if you made one change: replace the single abstract computing space for all of space-time and replace it with an abstract computing space for each point of space-time. The *one* computation becomes an *infinite number* of disjoint computations.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/16/2014 1:40 AM, LizR wrote: On 16 January 2014 19:20, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/15/2014 7:44 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, But stop and think of the implications of what even Bruno is saying. *Space is completely

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, There is no all of spacetime nor each point of spacetime where the computations are occuring. Remember, that's an abstract dimensionLESS computational space prior to dimensional spacetime. It has no 'points' itself, it computes all points of dimensional space and clock time. They

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, PS: I agree with the rest of what you are saying here but again you are talking about clock time, dimensional spacetime, and not P-time which is distinct and is prior to any metrics... Edgar On Thursday, January 16, 2014 1:23:50 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/16/2014 7:09 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Whoa, back up a little. This is the argument that proves every INDIVIDUAL observer has his OWN present moment time. You are trying to extend it to a cosmic universal time which this argument doesn't address. That's the second argument you

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, I do not think that block time is a coherent idea. It assumes something impossible: that a unique foliation of space-time can be defined that correlates to a specific experience of an entity

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, Is P-time observable? On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, PS: I agree with the rest of what you are saying here but again you are talking about clock time, dimensional spacetime, and not P-time which is distinct and is prior to

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, The closest thing that I can comprehend that might line up with your ideas of a abstract dimensionLESS computational space is a Hilbert space. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, There is no all of spacetime nor each point of

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, I do not think that block time is a coherent idea. It assumes something impossible: that a unique

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Der LizR, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stephen, I have a 2c worth on block time, too :) On 17 January 2014 09:33, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Jason, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, I do not

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/16/2014 10:06 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/15/2014 10:59 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, spudboy...@aol.com mailto:spudboy...@aol.com wrote:

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Jason, Block time does not offer any explanation for the notion of a flow of time, even if such is an illusion. Something has to account for the asymmetry of the arrow of thermodynamics. My proposed solution is to assume that Becoming is a ontological property, not an illusion at all, pace

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/16/2014 10:07 AM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Jason, I do not think that block time is a coherent idea. It assumes something impossible: that a unique foliation of space-time can be defined that correlates to a specific experience of an entity that is said to be embedded in the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:54 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/16/2014 10:06 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/15/2014 10:59 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, spudboy...@aol.com

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Dear Jason, Block time does not offer any explanation for the notion of a flow of time, even if such is an illusion. Please explain how you know this. Something has to account for the asymmetry of the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread LizR
Hi Stephen On 17 January 2014 09:33, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: The first part is right, but within a given foliation, there is an ordering of events. It's only when comparing foliations that you get different orders. (I believe this is called proper time or

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread LizR
On 17 January 2014 10:55, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.comwrote: Dear Jason, Block time does not offer any explanation for the notion of a flow of time, even if such is an illusion. Something has to account for the asymmetry of the arrow of thermodynamics. Something does! The

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, First the observer being at the event is the way all science is observed and confirmed. That is what an observation is. You speak as if it's somehow unimportant. Again this first argument merely proves there is a present moment for each observer, not a common universal present moment.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, Yes, of course p-time is observable. The present moment of p-time is the present moment we all observe our entire existence within from birth to death. It's the most fundamental and persistent of observations... Edgar On Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:28:06 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, Can you describe the construction or basic mechanism that one would use to measure P-time? On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, Yes, of course p-time is observable. The present moment of p-time is the present moment we all observe

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, We have to be very careful when we try to 'measure' p-time because it is prior to dimensionality since it provides the processor cycles in which dimensionality and thus measure is computed and is the locus or substrate of those computations. We all experience the present moment of

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:31 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/16/2014 1:57 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:54 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/16/2014 10:06 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:37 AM, meekerdb

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-16 Thread meekerdb
On 1/16/2014 5:49 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:31 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 1/16/2014 1:57 PM, Jason Resch wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:54 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 18:44, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bruno, I disagree. A universal number is still a number and this is an idea of a mind. This contradicts your admission, if I remember correctly, that 23 is prime is true or false independently of us. 2+2=4 is infinitely

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 18:48, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Liz, Correct. Most reality math is likely fairly simple and fairly limited. That's why Bruno's 'comp' that assumes all math exists out there somewhere is so extraordinarily wrong and excessive and non- parsimonious. I will stop comment, if

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 19:05, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, 'Non-existence cannot exist', obviously refers to the existence of reality itself, Then it is circular. not to milk in your refrigerator! Existence must exist means something must exist, whether it's milk or whatever. Individual

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 20:21, meekerdb wrote: On 1/14/2014 8:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Alas, I dream often of people doing that to convince me on the reality of something, and I have developed, apparently, an immunity on that kind of argument, at least when made public. So in private you

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jan 2014, at 21:39, LizR wrote: On 14 January 2014 23:01, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Physicists have not yet formal theory. Like all scientists they work informally. You don't consider Newton's Law of Gravitation to be a formal theory? No, but I understand what you

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
OK, I see what you mean. (And you're right, it was on FOAR that you set me various exercises.) So maybe I asked for the wrong thing from Edgar. I don't suppose I will get anything remotely like the *Principia* no matter how many times I ask, but out of interest, what *should* I be asking him for?

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, No, you don't get the idea of what I'm saying. Think of a running computer program. It's always able to compute its next computation. Same with the 'program' that computes reality. It is always able to compute the next state of the universe. If it wasn't there obviously wouldn't be a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, Thanks for the correction. But it's still just as bad to claim all arithmetic just sits there in 'Platonia'. You still don't address the problem of how anything happens, and how the universe gets computed. I know you claim that somehow movement is an illusion of perspective from inside

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, Of course it is circular - but it is meaningful. The fundamental axiom MUST be circular, but it must be so in a meaningful way. I already noted that when I said it was 'self-necessitating'. So far as I know my Existence Axiom is the most meaningful fundamental axiom. What is YOUR

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2014, at 13:31, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, No, you don't get the idea of what I'm saying. Think of a running computer program. Run by which computer? Arithmetic or some physical reality? running computer program is ambiguous. It's always able to compute its next

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2014, at 13:36, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Thanks for the correction. But it's still just as bad to claim all arithmetic just sits there in 'Platonia'. I use only the fact that the arithmetical proposition is true of false. It is the belief that 1+1=3 is false or true,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2014, at 13:41, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, Of course it is circular - but it is meaningful. Without further ado, circular statements are *to much* meaningful. The fundamental axiom MUST be circular, Is that anew meta-axiom? Again, that is not obvious at all. but it must

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, If the fundamental axioms of arithmetic are the fundamental axioms of your UDA then where do those come from? Unless you can answer that question you have a gap in your theory that mine doesn't have. Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:50:44 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote:

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2014, at 10:50, LizR wrote: OK, I see what you mean. (And you're right, it was on FOAR that you set me various exercises.) Yes. nice to see you on the everything list! So maybe I asked for the wrong thing from Edgar. I think that you ask, what we all ask. To be

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, If you assume the basic axioms of arithmetic are the basic axioms of reality then you ARE effectively saying that Arithmetic exists because arithmetic exists. whether you verbalize it or not, and that is your implicit unstated fundamental axiom. That is certainly not less circular than

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Jan 15, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Bruno, Thanks for the correction. But it's still just as bad to claim all arithmetic just sits there in 'Platonia'. You still don't address the problem of how anything happens, and how the universe gets computed. I know

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2014, at 15:05, Edgar L. Owen wrote: If the fundamental axioms of arithmetic are the fundamental axioms of your UDA then where do those come from? Russell and Whitehead suggested that they could be derived from logic alone, but that has been refuted, and today, we know that we

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jan 2014, at 16:59, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, If you assume the basic axioms of arithmetic are the basic axioms of reality then you ARE effectively saying that Arithmetic exists because arithmetic exists. That is true. But the premise is incorrect. I do not assume that the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, 1. First I demonstrated that SR falsifies block time (by requiring a moving arrow of time and a present moment), so since SR is well verified block time is false. 2. I asked you around a dozen questions each homing in on another problem with block time. I received no convincing answers

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/15 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Jason, 1. First I demonstrated that SR falsifies block time You did not (by requiring a moving arrow of time and a present moment) It does not... , so since SR is well verified block time is false. BS Quentin 2. I asked you around a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, If you are so sure about SR not falsifying block time you must be able to recall my argument that it does in detail. Would you be able to explain what is wrong with that argument specifically? Do you actually remember the argument? Just stating your opinion that it doesn't is not

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/15 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Quentin, If you are so sure about SR not falsifying block time you must be able to recall my argument that it does in detail. Would you be able to explain what is wrong with that argument specifically? People have already done it... The main

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, You obviously have no idea what my argument is and thus can't properly comment on whether it is valid or not Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 2:00:15 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014/1/15 Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript: Quentin, If you are so sure about

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/15 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Quentin, You obviously have no idea what my argument is and thus can't properly comment on whether it is valid or not You make my point It's obvious, the problem is with me, not your theory. Quentin Edgar On Wednesday, January 15,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread meekerdb
On 1/15/2014 4:31 AM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Bruno, No, you don't get the idea of what I'm saying. Think of a running computer program. It's always able to compute its next computation. Same with the 'program' that computes reality. It is always able to compute the next state of the universe.

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, You asked me how I explained the spin entanglement paradox day before yesterday and I referred you to my detailed answer at the the initial post of the Another shot at how spacetime arises from quantum reality topic. Again I refer you to the same initial post in that topic for the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 07:26, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, 1. First I demonstrated that SR falsifies block time (by requiring a moving arrow of time and a present moment), so since SR is well verified block time is false. SR doesn't require a moving arrow of time, and the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 07:54, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Quentin, If you are so sure about SR not falsifying block time you must be able to recall my argument that it does in detail. Would you be able to explain what is wrong with that argument specifically? SR doesn't require a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread meekerdb
On 1/15/2014 2:32 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, You asked me how I explained the spin entanglement paradox day before yesterday and I referred you to my detailed answer at the the initial post of the Another shot at how spacetime arises from quantum reality topic. Again I refer you to the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, I will have to agree with LizR here. SR in fact makes the notion of a present moment a nonsensical concept, as SR shows how there does not exist, nay cannot exist any global frame of simultaneity. This prevents the existence, if SR is correct and good evidence tells us that it is,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Do you know what my argument is? Quentin also claimed it was invalid but he couldn't tell us what the argument is that he claims is invalid. Do you know? Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:41:43 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 16 January 2014 07:26, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Of course it does. Do you know what my argument to demonstrate that is? If not you are just stating an unsubstantiated opinion... Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:42:54 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 16 January 2014 07:54, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Quentin,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 11:53, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, Do you know what my argument is? Quentin also claimed it was invalid but he couldn't tell us what the argument is that he claims is invalid. Do you know? You argued as follows: The proof is simply the fact that the time

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, Do you know what my argument is that demonstrates otherwise? Neither Liz nor Quentin seem to know it even though they claim it's invalid. So I'll ask you if you know what the argument is? Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:54:12 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Edgar, It is not possible to get around the consequence of a finite maximum velocity of signal propagation. Even if we where to accept the notion that the computation is being done outside of space-time one has to show how the relationships between the events in space-time are computed. In

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, No Liz, that's not it. That's a different argument. Obviously you don't know it Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:59:21 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 16 January 2014 11:53, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: Liz, Do you know what my argument is? Quentin also

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, That's not my argument. Where are you coming up with that stuff? Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:03:45 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Edgar, It is not possible to get around the consequence of a finite maximum velocity of signal propagation. Even if we where to

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, OK, I just reposted it again under the original topic heading. Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 5:50:00 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/15/2014 2:32 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, You asked me how I explained the spin entanglement paradox day before yesterday and I

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear LizR, Thank you for the repost! Dear Edgar, There is a reason why this simple obvious fact was not recognized in literature. It has been proven to be nonsense. Your concept is: the time of the present moment (what I call P-time) which is absolute and common to all observers across

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, Parse what I just wrote and read the linked references. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, That's not my argument. Where are you coming up with that stuff? Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:03:45 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/15 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Liz, Do you know what my argument is? Quentin also claimed it was invalid but he couldn't tell us what the argument is that he claims is invalid. You're joking ? I didn't ? I explicitely refer your BS common universal present which is contrary to

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, Once again, that's not the argument in question that proves it, that's a different train of thought. Liz's repost has nothing to do with the argument I'm referencing. She clearly doesn't know what it is. Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:21:35 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/16 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Stephen, Once again, that's not the argument in question that proves it, that's a different train of thought. Liz's repost has nothing to do with the argument I'm referencing. She clearly doesn't know what it is. I know it... you're a troll...

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, How many times do I have to tell you? You are on an entirely different train of thought and not addressing the argument I made at all... Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:22:22 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Parse what I just wrote and read the linked

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, That's not the argument. As you stated it it isn't even in the form of the logical sequence an argument requires. You are just stating your opinion on a part of my theory, not being able to reference the specific argument in question you claim is invalid. Edgar On Wednesday,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread meekerdb
On 1/15/2014 2:54 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, I will have to agree with LizR here. SR in fact makes the notion of a present moment a nonsensical concept, as SR shows how there does not exist, nay cannot exist any global frame of simultaneity. This prevents the existence, if SR

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/16 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Quentin, That's not the argument. As you stated it it isn't even in the form of the logical sequence an argument requires. blablabla You are just stating your opinion on a part of my theory, That part of your theory is falsified... so your

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, It is not arrogant or trollish to ask someone to demonstrate knowledge of an argument he claims is invalid. Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 6:32:45 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014/1/16 Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript: Stephen, Once again, that's not the

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, Parse what I just posted and think about it. It is not obvious or common sense, but the math works and predicts what we observe. :-) On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, Once again, that's not the argument in question that proves it,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014/1/16 Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net Quentin, It is not arrogant or trollish to ask someone to demonstrate knowledge of an argument he claims is invalid. I did... but you won't acknowledge it, because that's how trolling work... and you're sure good at it, you're an irritating troll

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Quentin Anciaux
Edgar logic: There exist a common universal present, therefore block time is false... yeah \o/ It's obvious, so it's true, don't get it why you didn't register \o/ My theory is true, any informed person could see it at first look, the world thought SR proved simultaneity is relative, but no,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Bravo! Someone actually registered some of my arguments, though I would state them slightly differently. The argument in question, that everyone except Brent seems to have missed, is simple. SR requires that everything moves at the speed of light through spacetime. This is NOT just a

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 12:03, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Liz, No Liz, that's not it. That's a different argument. Obviously you don't know it Well, re-present it, then. I'm not going to play guessing games with you. So far every argument you've presented has been thoroughly

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, Your argument is based on a disconception of what the speed of light is! Light -photons- do not move at all. They are the null length rays that connect events together. Nothing can travel faster than c because to do so would be traveling in less than zero distances. A light cone

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 12:33, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, How many times do I have to tell you? You are on an entirely different train of thought and not addressing the argument I made at all... Well tell us what it is, then. -- You received this message because you are

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread meekerdb
On 1/15/2014 3:21 PM, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear LizR, Thank you for the repost! Dear Edgar, There is a reason why this simple obvious fact was not recognized in literature. It has been proven to be nonsense. Your concept is: the time of the presentmoment (what I call P-time) which

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, There is no such thing as a location in time. The entire idea of a dimension of time is a mental construct that we hang events that we experience and learn about in a sequence. SR and GR do not allow for a unique dimension of time for all observers such that we can say everything

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 12:39, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Quentin, That's not the argument. As you stated it it isn't even in the form of the logical sequence an argument requires. You are just stating your opinion on a part of my theory, not being able to reference the specific

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 13:02, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Brent, Bravo! Someone actually registered some of my arguments, though I would state them slightly differently. The argument in question, that everyone except Brent seems to have missed, is simple. SR requires that

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread meekerdb
On 1/15/2014 4:02 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Bravo! Someone actually registered some of my arguments, though I would state them slightly differently. The argument in question, that everyone except Brent seems to have missed, is simple. SR requires that everything moves at the speed of

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, c is actually the speed of TIME as the STc equation makes clear. It just so happens that light, having no velocity in time, always travels at the speed of time in all observers' frames thorough SPACE. All its spacetime velocity is only through space. I didn't say anything travels

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Brent, You wrote: That's a non-standard and confusing development of QM (besides being 168pages long). GR assumes a continuous spacetime manifold that is differentiable.. Yes, I admit that it is non-standard and can be confusing. The math that Prof. Kitada uses is not well known by

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread LizR
On 16 January 2014 13:31, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, c is actually the speed of TIME as the STc equation makes clear. It just so happens that light, having no velocity in time, always travels at the speed of time in all observers' frames thorough SPACE. All its spacetime

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, You are just jumping to that conclusion without actually addressing the argument I present. What do you see wrong with my argument, other than that you disagree with the conclusion? Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:21:31 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar,

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bot, Time does not move. Please alert your programer that your libraries of responses are failing to achieve the predicted response. Get new ones. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, c is actually the speed of TIME as the STc equation

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Bot, Arguing from false premises will never lead to truths. Please update your library. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, You are just jumping to that conclusion without actually addressing the argument I present. What do you see wrong

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, No, that's a misunderstanding of SR as the argument demonstrates. It is clear you disagree with the conclusions but what's wrong with the argument in your opinion? You are simply stating the argument must be wrong because you don't agree with the conclusions. That doesn't cut it...

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Both DO follow if you understand the argument. Why do you think they don't follow? Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:27:07 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 1/15/2014 4:02 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, Bravo! Someone actually registered some of my arguments, though I would

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, Time does not move??? Even your clock knows better than that! And you think my theories are weird! Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:35:26 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Bot, Time does not move. Please alert your programer that your libraries of responses are

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Edgar, Time is not the movement of the hands or numbers of a clock, it is the measure of the mapping between the positions of the hands. That is not motion, it is something else. Time does not move. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Stephen, Time

Re: Tegmark's New Book

2014-01-15 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Stephen, If time doesn't move then nothing moves. Edgar On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:48:02 PM UTC-5, Stephen Paul King wrote: Dear Edgar, Time is not the movement of the hands or numbers of a clock, it is the measure of the mapping between the positions of the hands. That is not

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