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Last edited by shunyadragon; 09-28-2022, 10:25 AM.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post
Please explain what you think the B-theory of time is and how it works. Thanks.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Post
He never said time was an illusion. He claimed it was a physical dimension, that space and time are the same thing, but in 4 different dimensions. Space-time is height, width, depth and time.
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Originally posted by seer View Post
No Shuny, Einstein believed that time was an illusion, that the past, present and future all exist together, that is block theory. That was Einstein's interpretation of his theory...
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
The two different 'block?' theories are a later subjective philosophical interpretation of Einstein's Theory
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[QUOTE=seer;n1417646]
Einstein said our view of the flow or passage of time was an illusion, that is Block theory. p/quote]
The two different 'block?' theories are a later subjective philosophical interpretation of Einstein's Theory
Both A and B theory theoriese are philosophical interpretations from the human perspective.
Scientists likely prefer the B theory of time, because of the relative nature of time.
Last edited by shunyadragon; 09-28-2022, 09:05 AM.
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Originally posted by seer View Post
Totally has nothing to do with my point or the discussion.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
By the evidence Natural Laws and natural processes underlie the nature of our physical existence. The question of 'What is running the film' is a subjective anthropomorphic projection of 'something' that there is no evidence that exists.
At present our physical existence simply exists as observed.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
I believe that what you are calling 'block theory? (growing block theory?)' needs more explanation and misrepresents Einstein's Theory of special relativity. It sort of states the obvious of the limits of our comprehension of the passage of time, and makes a philosophical theory that is not meaningful. It is more a subjective philosophical human perspective including the alternatives: eternalism (block universe theory) and presentism. They often appeal to human issues of comprehension such as common sense, but in reality they are not meaningful from the scientific perspective. Einstein never proposed his theory in terms of 'block time,' eternalism nor presentism.'
Measuring time and space is a human construct, and in reality there are no units of measurement naturally on time and space.
In Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example, time is woven together with the three dimensions of space, forming a bendy, four-dimensional space-time continuum—a “block universe” encompassing the entire past, present, and future. Einstein’s equations portray everything in the block universe as decided from the beginning; the initial conditions of the cosmos determine what comes later, and surprises do not occur—they only seem to. “For us believing physicists,” Einstein wrote in 1955, weeks before his death, “the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
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Originally posted by seer View Post
What is running the film in B theory? And you can only actually run that film if A theory is correct - any series of events in motion would require flow.
At present our physical existence simply exists as observed.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
I believe that what is called 'block theory misrepresents Einstein's Theory of special relativity. It sort of states the obvious of our limits our comprehension of the passage of time, and makes a theory is not meaningful. It is more a philosophical human perspective including the alternatives: eternalism and presentism. They often appeal to human issues of comprehension such as common sense, but in reality they are not meaningful from the scientific perspective. Einstein never proposed his theory in terms of 'block time,' eternalism nor presentism.'
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Originally posted by seer View Post
Block theory comes out of Einstein's theory of special relativity. That past, present and future exist together. And our view of passing time (or flow) is an illusion.
Measuring time and space is a human construct, and in reality there are no units of measurement naturally on time and space.Last edited by shunyadragon; 09-28-2022, 07:53 AM.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
This 'block' concept (Newtonian view of Nature?) needs explanation, because it has no relationship to the objectively verifiable evidence that supports the Methodological Naturalism the undermines all of science.
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Originally posted by Machinist View PostSeer mentioned before you even became self aware...before we are even conceived, everything is already written in the block universe.
That makes it a little questionable now. A person can not exist because they haven't been born yet, nor will they for thousands of years, and in the same block, they have been dead for thousands of years.
It's troubling to think that people who have not even been born, actually have already made all the decisions they will ever make and it's all recorded in the future block.
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