On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 3:37 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*> Best to consider the garage like a covered bridge, open at both ends. * *OK i**f you like, but I'm surprised you suggest that because it just makes my job easier because there are no doors I need to worry about, there are no observable consequences that differ between the car fitting and the car not fitting. * *> IMO, there is only one reality. * *And that opinion, I believe, is the root cause of all your confusion. I like the idea a lot but I admit it's conceivable that Many Worlds is wrong, however it's inconceivable that you're right in this case. * *> Therefore, however you want to define "fit",* *But how do you even define "measure" if, as you say, simultaneity has nothing to do with it? Suppose you want to check to see if the claim the car is 12 feet long is really true and you happen to have a 12 foot long measuring stick, what do you do? You check to see if it's possible for you to place the front of your measuring stick so it's even with the front of the car while SIMULTANEOUSLY placeing the other end of the stick so it's even with the back of the car. If you omit the "simultaneously" part then you could erroneously concluded everything was 12 feet long; I could easily place the front end of my measuring stick so it's even with the front of a supertanker and place the other end of the stick so it's even with the end of a supertanker (provided I do NOT do those two things simultaneously) and conclude that the giant supertanker was only 12 feet long. * > * > the car either fits or doesn't fit. There can be no ambiguity * *Einstein taught us in 1905 that if you don't take frame of reference into account then length is ambiguous, and time duration is ambiguous, and speed is ambiguous, and simultaneity is ambiguous, so it's not surprising that fitting is ambiguous too. * * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* 2c4 > -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3RK8XRCCkF-Gr5VLx%2BR-78SKPajexhfm24u-Avw%2B%3DanQ%40mail.gmail.com.
