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 what SR *claims*... How arrogant can you be ? Quentin > 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> 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 present moment is only >> defined for a given location in space-time. >> >>> >>> 2. I asked you around a dozen questions each homing in on another >>> problem with block time. I received no convincing answers to any of them >>> that I recall. Basically you just told me they weren't really problems >>> without giving any reasons why not. >>> >> >> Since your point 1 is false, you couldn't have asked any meaningful >> questions. >> >>> >>> 3. Then I asked you to clarify a couple of aspects of the structure of >>> block time (e.g. is it a continuum or sequential frames) which you were >>> unable to provide. >>> >> >> In SR it's a continuum. >> >>> >>> Please understand I'm not singling you out here. The problem is not so >>> much with your explanations as with the theory itself which is just not >>> tenable and which of course you are not responsible for.... >>> >>> As far as I know, the idea of block time was proposed by Newton (I think >> he called it the sensorium of God, or something like that) and was later >> used by Laplace, Einstein and Minkowski. >> >> Since your point 1 is false, you failed to falsify block time. If you >> *can* show that SR requires a moving arrow of time, or whatever, then SR >> may invalidate block time, but it hasn't yet. >> >> -- > 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. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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.
