On 4 January 2014 04:31, Gabriel Bodeen <[email protected]> wrote:
> (I'm expanding on the comment by Jason.) > > The "P-time" notion, if it means anything at all timelike, says that there > exists some uniquely correct ordering of events across space. > > Consider these events: Pam's 3rd birthday party and Sam's 4th birthday > party > > The "P-time" notion says that either (A) P3bp happens before S4bp, (B) > P3bp happens after S4bp, or (C) P3bp happens at the same time as S4bp. The > "P-time" notion, having not developed in a scientific manner, can't offer > any help in discovering which of A, B, or C is the case; it merely says it > is the case that, in principle, exactly one of A, B, or C is true. > > By contrast, the past century of physics concludes that A is true in some > reference frames, B is true in other reference frames, and C is true in > other other reference frames. It is NOT the case that, in principle, > exactly one of A, B, or C is true. > > So there's a direct contradiction. And "P-time" falls on the wrong side > of the contradiction according to a whole century's worth of experimental > work in physics. > Very nicely summarised. > > Furthermore, there is (scientific) theoretical work (c.f. > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002145454.htm ) that > indicates that, by exploiting quantum behavior, we should be able to build > a superposition of one causal order and the reverse causal order between > two events in the same location. If that pans out empirically, then the > "P-time" notion won't even have the appearance of being a local > approximation to the truth. > > Now that really IS fascinating! (PS Bruno may even know one of those people - Ognyan Oreshkov) -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
