Re: How does acceleration curve space? Can anyone provide an answer?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Correction. That should be Unruh radiation or the Unruh effect, not Uruh. Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:18:00 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/13/2014 2:55 PM, LizR wrote: I didn't really imagine that an acceleration-caused event horizon warps space (particularly since it

Re: How does acceleration curve space? Can anyone provide an answer?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
acceleration is not really equivalent to gravitation? Can anyone explain? Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:02:15 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: All, By the Principle of Equivalence acceleration is equivalent

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:24:02 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: Jesse, I haven't seen any book on relativity point this out even though it is quite obviously what relativity actually does. Do you deny relativity gives

Re: How does acceleration curve space? Can anyone provide an answer?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
elevator is motion through curved space? That was my original question but I don't know what your answer is from your post.. Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 7:41:09 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:22:18AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: All

Re: How does acceleration curve space? Can anyone provide an answer?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
of the planet sized sized elevator or not? And if so what is the form of that warpage? Is there a planet sized warping, or not? Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 7:51:00 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Brent, Liz

Re: How does acceleration curve space? Can anyone provide an answer?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, As usual, you are late to the party. The accelerating elevator is in deep space. There are no tidal forces. The tidal forces of EARTH'S gravitation on the man standing on earth are negligible and can be ignored. They are just the difference in gravitational pull on his head and feet.

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, 2014 6:05:34 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:23:14AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Craig, I also suspect Bruno's math skills are superior to mine, but his understanding of the place of math in reality seems pretty deficient, or perhaps just rigid

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
effects, the permanent which A and B do agree upon (effects of gravity or acceleration), and the transient which A and B do not agree upon (effects of relative motion only). Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:46:30 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, But I just pointed out in my previous reply that your example is NOT even correct relativity. Non-accelerated relative motion does NOT cause any actual age differences because it's symmetric. A and B are in the exact same relative motion with respect to each other so the effect has to

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
explained earlier. Edgar On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:36:01 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, But I just pointed out in my previous reply that your example is NOT even correct relativity. Non-accelerated relative motion does NOT cause any actual age differences because it's symmetric

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Bruno, and Craig, Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes, or 17 is a prime. In fact I don't see any reason why reality needs any concept even of 17 to compute its current state. If this is true then individual numbers such as 17 are not necessary for reality to compute the

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
that relativity either implies or requires a common p-time background to all relativistic calculations and phenomena. Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 9:27:38 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Both, but you completely

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
assumptions. So given those assumptions what DO you agree with? Why is this could not a WOULD? Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 9:46:14 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Before I go the trouble of answering

What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, In a computational reality everything consists of information in the computational space of reality/existence, whose presence within it gives it its reality. By taking place within reality these computations produce real universe results. All this information is ultimately quantized into

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
11, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, If you don't agree with anything I've said, with any of the answers I've provided to your numerous questions, then I have to assume your motive is asking all these questions is not to learn anything about

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
is running slower than B's. Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:19:12 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, If you don't agree with anything I've said, with any of the answers I've provided to your numerous

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
is... Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 9:45:23 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, I agree that Individual relativistic equations from a particular coordinate system don't support p-time simultaneity but comparing both equations of the two coordinate systems in the system, e.g. twin

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, OK, I see which assumptions A, B, and C you are referring to now. I was looking for them in the link you gave. I agree assumption C is incorrect because I NEVER CLAIMED that. I

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Sorry, that should read t will always = t'', not, t will always + t'. Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:13:51 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, Your condition C. was not example dependent. You just need to rephrase your condition C. as two observers with no relative motion

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Darn, t' NOT t''! Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:37:54 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, Sorry, that should read t will always = t'', not, t will always + t'. Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 1:13:51 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, Your condition C

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
the clock time t-values of each that occurred in the same p-time, the same present moment of p-time. Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:00:23 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Your condition C. was not example

Re: Human brain artificially created in laboratory

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Richard, I agree. As I recall physicians and hospitals are the 4th leading cause of DEATH in the US. Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 4:52:40 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: ASK A PHYSICIAN. I went to med school until I was too sick to continue. But I learned enough to never ASK A PHYSICIAN.

Re: Nagel on Explanation

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Richard, And that must be rejected logically as well... Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 5:03:21 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Craig Weinberg whats...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: Explanation, unlike causation is not just of an event but of an event

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
that whenever t=t' for any value that occurs in a common p-time, a common shared present moment of p-time. Hope that clarifies it... Edgar On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 7:46:30 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, Of course science is supposed to make assumptions. It's done all the time and rightfully so. But those assumptions are then supposed to be tested to see if they are reasonable. This is done in two ways. One by testing against empirical evidence. Two by seeing if they are logically

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, This is basically a question of epistemology. What is knowledge, and how do we know what is true knowledge. Ultimately, since there is no direct knowledge of actual reality since it's all filtered through and interpreted within our own minds, the only true test of true knowledge is

Re: Turing Reductio ad Absurdum

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, The logical proof that we have accurate knowledge of the world is our very existence. If our belief was completely wrong we could not function or even exist. Therefore all extant species have sufficient true knowledge (beliefs) of the world to function and exist within it. Edgar On

Re: Better Than the Chinese Room

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Craig, I explain both OBE's and NDE's in my book on Reality. The key to understanding OBE's is to first understand why normally the brain constructs a view of reality in which we seem to be INSIDE our body, inside our heads. When you understand how that works, it's easy to understand how the

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, February 9, 2014 12:05:32 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Consider another simple example: A and B in deep space. No gravity. Their clocks, t and t', are synchronized. They are in the same current p-time moment

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, et al, A Propros of our discussion of determining same past moments of P-time let me now try to present a much deeper insight into P-time, that illustrates and explains that, and see if it makes sense. I will show how

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
... Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 12:13:53 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, The ages are the only 'real' clocks here because they are not arbitrary but real and actual and cannot be reset. They show

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Same thing as I'm saying. My other clock time is just a clock centered in your coordinate system. It's the same idea. If you look at the equations of relativistic clock time they are always of the general form dt'/dt = f( ). I just note

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, I did explain it in considerable detail. As usual you either aren't paying attention or things aren't registering Read my previous posts for the explanation Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 2:02:25 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 10 February 2014 07:44, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
relativity works and compares in the frames of the particular observers in the cases. Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 1:44:05 PM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, No, the definition of p-time simultaneity itself depends on the arbitrary choice of coordinate system is NOT true. I clearly

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
:20 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, It's not clear to me what you mean by, in every coordinate system the time-coordinate of A = the time-coordinate of B. Are you actually disagreeing with that (please

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
t's and t''s will depend on the conditions in the preceding paragraph, on the choice of frames. Which is what I said at least several separate times in the preceding days. Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 2:42:43 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
choice in the matter). Is this right or am I still misunderstanding your wording? Jesse Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 2:42:43 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net wrote: Jesse, No, the definition of p-time simultaneity

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
spatial analogues. Clock time does, at least in your weak sense. I did explain that at length more than once... Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 3:29:39 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, The crux of my

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, PS: Because P-time doesn't have an intrinsic metric like clock time and space do Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 3:29:39 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, The crux of my answer to the crossed

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
with or don't. To conduct an objective discussion it helps to know what we agree with as well as what we don't. Don't you agree? Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 5:45:07 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, My

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:16:16 AM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 12:26:29 AM UTC, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 03:57:47PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa, Let me clarify my previous answer a little. P-time

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
of which is physically possible in my judgement for reasons I've stated previously here. Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 12:26:45 AM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 04:55:26PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Russell, Some good questions! Yes, the theory predicts

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, No, that's not my idea. See my proximate reply to Ghibbsa. Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:15:42 AM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: I think Edgar's basic idea is that there is a plane of simultaneity which sweeps through space-time, and that all events in space time intersect with it -

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
be shorter than the shortest clock time event. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:40:08 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 03:57:47PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa, Let me clarify my previous answer a little. P-time runs at the same intrinsic rate everywhere

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, For the first part of my answer to the question of in what sense might space be absolute see my new topic post on 'Newton's Bucket and Mach's Principle'.. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:57:32 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 8 February 2014 15:45, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote:

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
to the cosmological mass of the universe is roughly correct. But it provides an actual theory for why this is true. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:06:43 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On 2/7/2014 5:53 PM, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 10:34:50 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
7, 2014 9:09:51 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, If as you say, the same point in time in relativity just MEANS that two events are assigned the same time coordinate then the twins are NOT at the same point

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Friday, February 7, 2014 7:53:36 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Re your question of simultaneous past p-times its a good question and I did answer it but will give a more complete answer now. I said

Re: Suicide Words God and Ideas

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
John, and Chris, The problem is that language evolved to describe and make sense of daily life, what I call 'the logic of things'. Thus it is not really designed to properly describe many of the deeper more fundamental aspects of reality. Trying to do that often leads to wrong or misleading

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Well you just avoid most of my points and logic. Can you itemize the specific points you think I'm avoiding? But yes, I agree with your operational definition analysis

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
happened at the same time, or if it is fundamentally unknowable to all beings within our universe' (Obviously 2 and 3 only need to be answered if you do in fact answer yes to the previous questions.) Jesse On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
whether or not you like my answers... Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 6:23:37 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, No, they do NOT have the same time coordinates in their respective frames because

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
-times if you want. Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 5:28:08 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Yes, I think there is always a way to determine if any two events happen at the same point in p-time

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, that is always the clock time of that clock that corresponds to the current p-time moment. Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 5:28:08 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Yes, I think there is always a way to determine

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, February 8, 2014 5:28:08 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Yes, I think there is always a way to determine if any two events happen at the same point in p-time or not, provided you know everything about

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, See my other post that discusses the minimum p-time cycle time must be less than the minimum possible interval of events, where I discuss that... Edgar On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:49:03 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: On 9 February 2014 04:18, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, It doesn't give a coordinate transformation, it gives an explanation. Shortly I'll post a longer analysis... Best, Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:01:11 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, OK

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:37:21 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, OK, what I don't understand in this clearer example near the end of your post is you say The coordinate time of an event *is* just clock time

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, and Jesse, Yes, I second that! Jesse has very patiently explained his side of the argument in a lot of thoughtful detail which I very much appreciate. It's been an excellent opportunity for me to test and clarify the arguments in support of my position. Edgar On Thursday, February 6,

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Again I will post shortly a detailed analysis addressing this and other points you've made. Best, Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:59:53 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, What's wrong

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, What's wrong with conscious experience? Every observation of science is ultimately a conscious experience. Yes, ultimately, but the observations used in physical science used are always of quantitative

Re: Upon reflection

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, Interesting question, but for more fun make it a pinpoint eye looking in every direction at once from the center toward the mirrored interior surface of sphere. Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:53:18 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Here's a problem that occurred to me recently - nothing

Re: Upon reflection

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
PS: I suspect you will seem very full of yourself when you do that! :-) All you really have to do is use the standard ray tracing algorithms of computer graphics for the answer Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:53:18 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: Here's a problem that occurred to me

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, no matter what their clock times, is the only possible logical conclusion... Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:59:53 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, What's wrong with conscious experience? Every

New Type of Star Emerges From Inside Black Holes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
FYI only. Don't have an opinion. Edgar New Type of Star Emerges From Inside Black Holes Born inside black holes, “Planck stars” could explain one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries and may already have been observed by orbiting gamma ray telescopes, say cosmologists • The Physics arXiv Blog

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
definitions do support a same present moment. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 8:49:32 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, OK, here's the detailed analysis of how I see the current state of this issue that I

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, jessem wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, OK, here's the detailed analysis of how I see the current state of this issue that I promised: A few points: 1. Since you asked let me repeat my 'operational definition

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
in areas of different entropy and backwards in areas of decreasing entropy which it of course doesn't. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 1:01:54 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, BTW, your own operational

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
and a present moment to occur within. Both consciousness and the present moment are fundamental to all observation. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 12:51:32 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Well you just

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Well you just avoid most of my points and logic. Can you itemize the specific points you think I'm avoiding? But yes, I agree with your operational definition analysis. That is EXACTLY my point

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
as the correct/absolute one? Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 4:42:41 PM UTC-5, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 4:36:02 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Brent, and anyone else since Brent is not answering my more difficult questions, Take this example: Consider

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
PM UTC-5, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 6, 2014 2:09:39 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa, But it IS true that Andromedans must be doing something at this very present moment. That's a key insight to the theory. The fact that we can't determine exactly what the clock

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
twin meets up with his dead twin in the same present moment. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 5:01:26 PM UTC-5, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 9:55:02 PM UTC, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 6, 2014 2:09:39 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Ghibbsa, Well yes, basically that's it. The question I have is why we have to choose one frame over the other to get the correct results. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 5:17:41 PM UTC-5, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, February 7, 2014 10:04:42 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
computations are the different relativistic clock time rates of processes throughout the universe. Hope that makes it a little clearer Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 4:55:02 PM UTC-5, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, February 6, 2014 2:09:39 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa

Re: Upon reflection

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Liz, You can buy flexible sheets of reflective plastic. Edgar On Friday, February 7, 2014 6:32:23 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: I refrained from correcting Brent's grammar, but I see someone else had the gall to anyway. It's odd that there aren't more examples of this on the www, unless I

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
:01 AM, Jesse Mazer wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, BTW, your own operational definition proves that time flows. Because your reflected light will always arrive back to you later on your clock than when it was sent

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa, Let me clarify my previous answer a little. P-time runs at the same intrinsic rate everywhere in the universe though it doesn't really have a 'rate' in the usual sense since it's prior to dimensionality. However that rate is the speed at which

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Yes, and of course the fact that the age of the universe will pretty certainly be calculated everywhere in the universe as the same 13.7 billion years strongly suggest there is a common present universal present moment or time. Edgar On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:38:03 PM UTC-5,

Re: Eidetic memory and the comp hypothesis

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
PIerz, Of course the very concept of true eidetic memory is totally impossible. The total amount of data in the local environment in any single second is many orders of magnitude greater than the total capacity of a human brain. No one comes even vaguely close e.g. to remembering the position

Re: Eidetic memory and the comp hypothesis

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Richard, In a weak sense this Akashic records stuff has some merit. The theory I present in my book is that reality is computational. This means that the computational interactions of information forms changes those information forms and those changes encode prior information states in a

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Dear Ghibbsa, Thanks for the warm and friendly tone of your posts! That's rather the exception here and you set a high standard and a great example for other posters. I think you've been treated really well. It's kind of a given people reject a theory

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, The Hubble age of the universe just means that most observers throughout the unvierse calculate nearly identical CLOCK times for that age. There will be local differences but these will mostly be small due to averaging effects over the life of the universe. This Hubble age is NOT its

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 3:53:16 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jesse, A couple of points in response: 1. Even WITHOUT my present moment, the well established fact of a 4-d universe does NOT imply block time nor require it. Clock time still flows just fine in SR

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Brent, Here once again you are talking about clock time simultaneity. And here again I agree. But you still don't grasp that is NOT the common p-time present moment IN WHICH clock times are either simultaneous or not. Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:45:24 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: On

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
might provide one, but I don't see that yet. Again, like consciousness, it's a verifiable empirical observation even though no metric is associated with it. Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:43:45 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, But it's NOT the case... Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:52:58 AM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-06 Jesse Mazer laser...@gmail.com javascript:: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: But recall that p-time

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
wrote: On Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:49:23 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Ghibbsa, Hmmm, guess I was a little over optimistic in my praise! I'll retract it if you like. Your previous post must have been a temporary aberration! :-) Best, Edgar what you were actually doing was making

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 7:29:22 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Again, if I understand you, this is just a way to define 'same points in spacetime'. No, it's a way to physically define coordinate

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Quentin, Please refer to my extensive posts to Jesse for that... Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:21:13 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: So, what is it ? What is it supposed to solve in the first place ? 2014-02-06 Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:: Quentin, But it's

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
about what it is supposed to solve... Please state it here and now... do not refer to inexistant post. 2014-02-06 Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:: Quentin, Please refer to my extensive posts to Jesse for that... Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 1:21:13 PM UTC-5, Quentin

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jesse, Once again, for the nth time, you are making statements about CLOCK time simultaneity with which I agree. That has nothing to do with the same present moment of p-time. Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 12:15:16 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Edgar L

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
. Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 12:34:25 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Frankly the utility of this approach seems opaque to me. I don't see how it differs from just being able to calculate the actual

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
define it locally with a reflected light test. But that is not sufficient to explain why. Only my p-time theory seems to be able to do that Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 5:06:55 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
: On 7 February 2014 11:30, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:wrote: But even if they do that, one twin still is REALLY younger than the other. That real actual time disparity can NOT be reset. There is a real absolute time and age difference that relativity can CALCULATE but relativity

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, it can NOT explain or calculate it. Only my p-time theory does this, relativity doesn't Response? Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 5:06:55 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, Once again, for the nth time

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Ghibbsa, Boy O boy. Reread my post to you. It was completely complementary, only to be met not with appreciation but with snide remarks and accusations. Anyway I officially withdraw

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.netjavascript: wrote: Jesse, You are misunderstanding most of my points here! By standard I just mean any usual analysis that computes the correct answer of the twins' clock time differences when they meet. It seems to me, correct me if I'm

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
observable FACT. As for operational definition, I explained in detail how the theory works on numerous occasions. In fact you criticize me in your first paragraph for doing that too much! Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:28:30 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Edgar L

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, for the comparison of different t values to occur. But it's clear from your comments you are here to flame rather than to understand... Edgar On Thursday, February 6, 2014 6:45:56 PM UTC-5, Quentin Anciaux wrote: 2014-02-06 Edgar L. Owen edga...@att.net javascript:: Quentin, For starters

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