Jesse, Come on now. The well established fact that it is impossible to always establish CLOCKTIME simultaneity of distant events does NOT require or even imply block time.
What it actually implies is that everything is MOVING in clock time and if things actually move in clock time that is the opposite of block time. Nothing moves in a block universe. I'm surprised you don't see this... Edgar On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 1:36:43 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Jesse Mazer <laser...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > > > >> Aside from quotes already mentioned, if you want to educate yourself >> on the subject you might try reading the book Bruno mentioned, Pale >> Yourgrau's "Einstein and Gödel" which recounts the extensive discussions >> Einstein had with Gödel on the subject of block time. >> >>> > > Minor correction: I just looked it up, the book is actually "Gödel Meets > Einstein", it can be found here (used copies are available cheap): > http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Meets-Einstein-Travel-Universe/dp/0812694082 > > Yourgrau also wrote another book on the same subject, "A World Without > Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein": > http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Time-Forgotten-Einstein/dp/0465092942/ > > Incidentally, here's another quote by Einstein where he clearly rejects > the idea of any objective global "present moment", from p. 45 of the book > at http://books.google.com/books?id=0mc4BKpAyr0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA45 -- > > "We shall now inquire into the definitive insights that physics owes to > the special theory of relativity. > > (1) There is no such thing as simultaneity of distant events" > > Jesse > -- 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.
