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 people could perform an experiment to see what you are saying is true and that it does in fact go against the received wisdom then... You might reconsider the merit of your originally amazing intuition and ask yourself if you might not in fact be in error and/or suffering from a bit of self-deception. Yes, it does seem quite "obvious" and "self-evident" that we all share a single present, I absolutely and utterly agree with you here. However, I also appreciate the various thought experiments put forward by Einstein originally and now by other (quite sharp) people on this list pointing out how this intuition simply cannot be true. These thought experiments have later become actual experiments whose results have agreed, not with our incredibly clear and obvious intuition, but with the very counter-intuitive predictions that Einstein provided. I'm not going to hash out more examples. I don't think it's necessary. I've included some links you might want to read at the end. What I think is happening though is you might be deceiving yourself a bit in thinking that you are so brilliant in arriving at insights that absolutely no one else has come to, and you are kind of starting to come across like this guy.<http://www.timecube.com/> If you really want to understand behavior of the physical world we live in (or apparently physical, but actually computational, a la Bruno), maybe try these links out: http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/srelwhat.html http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/synchronizing.html http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/time_dil.html Peace out, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
