On Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 2:58:08 PM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote:
@Alan. That's like asking me how from the functioning of the transistor I can give you the formula for the fireball in World of Warcraft. Is impossible. The higher level world is an interaction between the free will of the consciousnesses involved. You will have to feel what those consciousnesses feel to understand why "the universe is expanding", etc. Aristotelian logic. AG On Sunday 29 September 2024 at 15:49:24 UTC+3 Alan Grayson wrote: On Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 6:14:05 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: @Alan. If you don't start a theory from the correct facts of reality, you get nowhere. Sure, some approximations that you make might work in particular cases, but the more you stretch the theory the less likely is to be meaningful. Only because Newton theory worked on Earth, it didn't mean it worked on the solar system. Only because Einstein theory worked on solar system, it didn't mean it worked on the galaxy. And so on. These are all approximations. The more you go outside their domain of applicability, the less likely they are to provide answers. The only way to receive correct answers is if you start from the correct fact of reality. And that is consciousness. There's nothing you write that indicates in any way, how starting from your perspective is helpful in any way. And don't tell me I need to read your paper. If your perspective is so enlightening, you should be able to point a way to solving some problems I raise. As for the professor who thinks the universe might be infinite but has no clue what that implies, it's obvious he's not as smart as he thinks he is, and has probably fallen in love with his illusion. And that's MY explanation of his behavior. AG On Sunday 29 September 2024 at 07:06:05 UTC+3 Alan Grayson wrote: On Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 11:58:23 AM UTC-6 Cosmin Visan wrote: What about Santa Claus ? Is Santa Claus infinite in expansion ? Argument: He can bring presents to all the children in the world in just 1 night. Please do me a favor and don't respond to my posts, unless you can seriously contribute to answering the questions I pose. Your philosophy or theory might be correct, but it doesn't offer any operational value in solving the issues I raise. Good bye and good luck. AG On Saturday 28 September 2024 at 19:13:23 UTC+3 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, September 27, 2024 at 11:56:47 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: On Friday, September 20, 2024 at 9:09:17 AM UTC-6 Alan Grayson wrote: Proof by Contradiction: If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, and came into being, that would be a type of singularity where it would have to *instantaneously* expand infinitely in spatial extent. Such a process is unphysical. Therefore, a universe infinite in spatial extent cannot come into being, and is therefore uncreated. AG A more direct way of understanding my claim: If you don't believe the universe can instantaneously expand to infinity, it must be finite in spatial extent, since no progressive expansion, no matter how fast, or for how long, can be infinite in spatial extent. Therefore, given the premise, the universe must be finite in spatial extent and cannot be flat. QED. AG I sent the physicist/cosmologist at Case Western a short email reminding him that if he assumes the universe (presumably, the unobservable part) is infinite in spatial extent, it always was, since there is no transition or evolution from finite to infinite, or vis-versa, he was also implicitly assuming that the universe began with an *instantaneous* transition to infinite in spatial extent at T=0. No reply. No thank you. As expected. AG -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/4b734ad5-8960-4777-bf21-8e51693d14efn%40googlegroups.com.
