The Nature of Time Settled Once and For All

[seer]

The choice gives less meaning to a philosophical/religious view of the nature of time. Regardless of the choice the theme is a theistic basis for the choice as presented in your first post when you stated the subjective Theistic assumption: 'God is temporal to preserve His Omniscience.'

Are you dense? That was not my post. And like Sparko said you have no idea what is being discussed, you thought B-theory was Newtonian...

[shunyadragon]

Are you dense? That was not my post. And like Sparko said you have no idea what is being discussed, you thought B-theory was Newtonian...

I did not think anything of the sort I asked a question.

[mattbballman31]

Agreed, but why do so many physicists hold to B theory?

That's the way it's taught at the Universities. They're basically taught an overly simplistic view of Lorentz, how his view is ad hoc, and it's glossed over in a couple of seconds during the lectures, or a couple of paragraphs in books and papers, and then it's just assumed that the only way to interpret the mathematical formalism of SR/GR is geometrically, and the gatekeepers at the universities keep it that way. It has to do with not wanting to admit that the way you've been trained to do SR/GR your whole life is not necessarily the way to go, or that the other options are just so silly they don't want to waste their time considering them. Views become settled and orthodox for a variety of sociological reasons.

Don't get me wrong. Geometrical presentations of SR/GR 'work', are very illuminating and help make 'visual' sense of extremely difficult mathematics. But then these physicists can't seem to understand that there are other relationships that visual representations have to Reality than plain ole', flatfooted, one-for-one correspondence 'imaging' or 'mirroring'. They can't seem to comprehend that it's totally coherent for a four-dimensional graph to 'represent' a three-dimensional phenomenon persisting through one dimension of time. And the success of that representation doesn't at all depend on the fact of that four-dimensional representation 'imaging' a four-dimensional Reality.

[Mountain Man]

I think Douglas Adams explained it best:

Time is an illusion to account for the passage of history. Alternatively, history is an illusion to account for the passage of time.

[Machinist]

I think Douglas Adams explained it best:

Time is an illusion to account for the passage of history. Alternatively, history is an illusion to account for the passage of time.

I would really like to understand that.

[shunyadragon]

I think Douglas Adams explained it best:

Time is an illusion to account for the passage of history. Alternatively, history is an illusion to account for the passage of time.

Your logic bit you in the butt.