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 time is there of > that present moment, or the fact that they might be doing things faster or > slower than we are doesn't falsify that they are doing something right now. > The fact that we may not be able to determine what they are doing, doesn't > mean they aren't doing something.... > > After all that's also true of any two observers including e.g. astronauts > on the space station. Do we doubt that they are actually doing something up > there right now in this present moment? No, of course not. And the > difference with Andromeda is only a matter of degree. thus if we can claim > a present moment for the space station, we can for Andromeda also. > OK, and note I am trying on your idea in the very way I am also questioning it. So the question is, allowing there could be a 1:1 matching of moments, is the idea meaningful if people in one galaxy have a big enough moment to think some thought like "people in that galaxy right now..." whereas the people in that other galaxy experience the same moment as 3 years or as 4 microseconds. In what meaningful sense is that a shared moment? Given the real time - and we are talking about time - is experienced totally differently. Why aren't the realities of time and how it is completely different, more fundamental than some since that it would be possible if we had all the data to do some 1:1 correlation such that everything could be related via a p-time. Again, note that I am questioning your idea, from within supposing your idea is true.
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