On 5 January 2014 13:48, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason, > > PPS: More questions about your theory of block time. > > 1. How do you keep Quantum Theory from being contradicted by block time? > With block time all quantum events from big bang to end of the universe > have already occurred, haven't they? If so then what happened to quantum > randomness? >
Everett explains this. But in any case there is no reason why a block universe can't contain events that appear random to its inhabitants. > > 1a. Did all the events of block time occur simultaneously at the beginning > of the universe? Did they occur at the big bang? Have they always existed? > They occur when they occur in the block universe. That's why points in space-time are called events. > > 2. All the events in the history of the universe are already determined, > fixed and actual aren't they? When did that happen? In what time, at what > time was this structure created? And since that time had to exist before > the creation of block time for it to be created within it, just what is > that 2nd kind of time that is not part of block time? > You are the one assuming that this second time is necessary. SR and GR and QM don't require this. Even Newtonian theory didn't require this. > > 3. How do you explain the (presumably) illusion of change, of things > happening and time progressing if everything is already static and fixed? > What is moving if it's not time? > Things move in relation to other things, which is to say they occupy different relative positions at different time coordinates. > > 4. If block time corresponds to clock time, then how can there be a single > block time structure that encompasses all events when clock times progress > faster or slower for different observers? > Already explained by geometry and worldlines, see several posts by Brent and Jason. > > 5. Why, if block time is true, and there is no free will, are you any more > than a robot zombie? > Why do you assume you aren't? -- 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.
