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

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
sideration and respond. 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 > > wrote: > >> All, >> >> By the Principle of Equivalence acceleration is equivalent to gravitation. >>

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
graph. Depends on what you mean by "instantaneous acceleration". There is no such thing yet you are claiming it has an actual physical effect. Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:09:29 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Edgar L. Owen >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
tual ages are if they can do that... Though somehow I suspect you've got some other understanding of this ready to spring! Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:22:56 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: &g

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
ndependent method to get the answer. That answer is given by relativity theory, not by p-time theory. Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:39:23 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >&g

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Richard, That's my point exactly. He can't. See my response just posted explaining that in detail. Edgar On Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:46:18 PM UTC-5, yanniru wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Jesse Mazer > > wrote: > >> >> >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
e. Edgar On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:59:43 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Not at all. I pointed out maybe a week ago with examples why your notion > of "a same point in SPACEtime&qu

Re: What are numbers? What is math?

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
eir relationships. Edgar On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:07:48 PM UTC-5, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:57:11 AM UTC-5, Edgar L. Owen wrote: >> >> Bruno, and Craig, >> >> Computational reality doesn't need any notion of primes,

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
; > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Let me clarify my response since I see it's slightly ambiguous. > > First every observer in the universe is ALWAYS at the same point in p-time > ALL the time with all other obse

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
t is implicitly assumed by relativity itself. Edgar On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:36:44 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > On 13 February 2014 03:00, Edgar L. Owen >wrote: > >> >> 5. The easy way is just to pause the experiment at any point and compare >> clocks (that is

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

2014-02-13 Thread Edgar L. Owen
All, By the Principle of Equivalence acceleration is equivalent to gravitation. Gravitation curves space. So doesn't this mean acceleration should also curve space? If not, why not? If not, doesn't that violate the Equivalence Principle? If so what is the geometric form of that curvature relat

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 univ

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
alculated by the method I 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 an

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 be

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-12 Thread Edgar L. Owen
the two kinds of relativistic time 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: > > >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
esponds to the same clock time in t' frame, which indicates 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 T

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 > > > wrote: > >> "Explanation, unlike causation is not just of an event but of an event >>> under a descripti

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 PHYSICIA

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
'. 4. This process is transitive between any number of arbitrary observers in any relativistic situation. We can always find 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

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, Ed

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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
uary 11, 2014 11:37:22 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Edgar L. Owen > > 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 assump

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
ually 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 coordinat

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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > If you don't agree with anything I've said, with any of the ans

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Edgar L. Owen > > 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 > a

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
reed with anything even given those 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 > > wrote: > > Jesse

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-11 Thread Edgar L. Owen
veral ways 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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > &

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
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 > > wro

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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > The crux of my answe

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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
4 at 3:02 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > 1. is correct. There is an objective truth that past events are > simultaneous in p-time. Recall I also gave the exact same answer yesterday > or the day before. > > > Thanks. So how about the issue of transitivit

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
those 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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
2:22:20 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > 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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
So to calculate simultaneous p-times based on clock times we must be sure we use the clock time readings of each observer's OWN clock. AND, in general, we can't do it from any single relativistic equation, but only by understanding how relativity works and compares in the frames of the

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, Edga

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
be computable. Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 12:47:49 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Same thing as I'm saying. My other clock time is just a clock centered in > your coordi

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
you actual read my posts... 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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > The ages are the only 'real' clocks here because they are not arbitrary >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
2014 10:51:32 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Edgar L. Owen > > 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 illustr

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-09 Thread Edgar L. Owen
ith one and only one B clock time t' value in B's frame. Edgar On Sunday, February 9, 2014 12:05:32 AM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Consider another simple example: > > A and B in deep

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 b

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 S

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 inte

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 co

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 >wrote: > >>

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
they can always tell what that was... 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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Yes, I think there is always a way to determine if any two events happen &

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
ou actually read, 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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
beled events occurred at the same p-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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Yes, I think there is always a way to determine if any t

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
your questions 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 > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> No, they do NOT have the same time coordinates in

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
> >> 3. Part of what happens in every cycle of p-time is that all relativistic >> effects, including all clock times and their differences, are recomputed. >> The recomputed state of all those relativistic effects then has the local >> re-computed clock time 'attached&

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
se p-time doesn't have a metric. 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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Well you just avoid most of my points and logic. > > > Can you it

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 con

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
twins show. Edgar 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 > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> Re your question of "simultaneous past p-times" its a good question and I >> did

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
ruary 7, 2014 9:09:51 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > If as you say, the ""same point in time" in relativity just MEANS that > two events are assigned the same time coordinate&qu

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
et is with respect 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 wrote: > > > On Friday, February 7, 2

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, > wrote: > >> >>> but can you throw

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
processor cycle must 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

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
th edges, neither 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, > >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-08 Thread Edgar L. Owen
y 8, 2014 4:28:16 AM UTC, ghi...@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,

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
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 in the universe though > it > > doesn't really have a 'rate' in the usual s

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
gt; On 2/7/2014 10:01 AM, Jesse Mazer wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> BTW, your own operational definition proves that time flows. Because >> your reflected light will always arrive

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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
. Part of the results of those 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

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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
in. The living 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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
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, >> >> But it IS true that Andromedans must be doing something at this very >> present moment

Re: A theory of dark matter...

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
we choose that frame 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 &

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
n of science requires both consciousness 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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, February 7, 2014 12:51:32 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> Well you just avoid most of my points and logic. >> > > Can you itemize the specific points you think I'm avoidin

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
low differently 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 > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >&

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
, jessem wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> OK, here's the detailed analysis of how I see the current state of this >> issue that I promised: >> >> >> A few points: >>

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
ional 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 > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> OK, here's the detailed analysis of how I see the c

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 i

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
universe they meet with. This conclusion, that all observers in the universe share a common universal present moment, 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

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 recent

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 - nothin

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
b 6, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > > > wrote: > > > > > Jesse, > > > > > > What's wrong with "conscious experience"? Every observation of science > is > > > ultimately a conscious experience. > > >

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 > > wrote: > >> Jesse, &g

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, 20

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-07 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Best, Edgar 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 > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> OK, what I don't understand in this clearer example near the end of your >> post is you say "

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 > > wrote: > >

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
r 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 >: > >> Quentin

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
; > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> So we can only discuss your ideas and not mine? >> > > No, but it's pretty irritating when you ask me questions specifically > about *my* (relativistic model),

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
014 6:12:10 PM UTC-5, jessem wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > >> Jesse, >> >> You are misunderstanding most of my points here! >> >> By standard I just mean any usual analysis that computes the correct >&

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
t; wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Edgar L. Owen >> > 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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
NE a same moment in spacetime as you do, 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 > > wr

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
wrote: > > On 7 February 2014 11:30, Edgar L. Owen >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 relativit

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
moment) and then says well at least we can 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

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
times in a SAME present moment.. Only the assumption of a separate p-time in my theory explains how that happens..... 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 > > wrote: > >> Jesse, &g

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
38 AM, Edgar L. Owen > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > OK, let's see if I understand your coordinate spacetime model the same way > you do. > > Start with an empty space with no matter or energy. > > [But this is impossible in my theory since the presence of matter/e

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
f them, there is nothing 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 >: > >> Quentin, >> >> Please refer to my extensive posts to Jesse for that... >> >>

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 >: > >> Quentin,

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
t readings when they met proving that the meeting was at the same point in spacetime. Edgar 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 > > wrote: > > Jesse, > > Again, if I understand you, t

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! >> :

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 >: > >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Edgar L. Owen >> > wrote: >> >>

Re: Block Universes

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
trying to tell me that coordinate time 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: > > >

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
6, 2014 1:26:37 AM UTC-5, ghi...@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 &

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 p-

Re: Real science versus interpretations of science

2014-02-06 Thread Edgar L. Owen
3:18:18 PM UTC, 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 yo

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