Thanks for these Sarbajit. Eric
> On Jan 29, 2025, at 10:45 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also John Norton's take on it > > https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Obs_Equiv_final.pdf > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com> wrote: > This may be the first paywalled PDF (attached) > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM Santafe <desm...@santafe.edu> wrote: > btw, thank you for this. > > Like the cosmic horizon, both the top link and the journal article are behind > paywalls. But the university could get me the second one. A 3-page paper. > Amazing. I read the construction, and think I follow the claims. I haven’t > spent time looking at the manifolds he constructs, enough to convince myself > that I can see them. But that’s just time. > > Eric > > > > > On Jan 29, 2025, at 10:06, glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fiai.tv%2farticles%2fthe-universe-is-unknowable-from-within-it-auid-3057&c=E,1,AwRg2KvGth_GUJNej88XfasttX1aPURydaXEN5gmJ6dMKxuwMl3JdpIAkGubWAXi5tfnWlj8tgE1UycYvSgY6FNlCIwxJuhaShCol9rByga_qoOi2vlrfEmGWvAh&typo=1 > > > > "In light of the situation, one might insist that spacetime have certain > > global properties instead. But what justifies this move? Given the theorem, > > we know this justification cannot be due to any observational data we have > > collected -- even after allowing for any local induction on such data. > > Perhaps one could appeal to some strong form of global induction. For > > example, the Copernican principle could be invoked which seems to modestly > > deny us a special status in the cosmos: the observable universe is presumed > > to be representative of the entirety of spacetime. But as the philosopher > > John Earman has aptly remarked, "this seeming modesty is belied by the > > immodest use to which the principle is put in justifying an inductive > > extrapolation'' [9]. Indeed, induction on such vast scales would seem to be > > suspect given that we are able to observe only the tiniest fraction of the > > universe [10]. Remember the ants!" > > > > 2 of the interesting references are here: > > > > Manchak, J. (2009), "Can We Know the Global Structure of Spacetime?" > > Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 40: 53-56. > > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fdoi.org%2f10.1016%2fj.shpsb.2008.07.004&c=E,1,37U3FCfmt2kwwoKkBsYaXr_rchHZnkSAi9xBTqlvvdv028Es-FGPFjYp8EdtMUAU1hhZ5Z1U0wHTkLD1l91G3KQBPW3CsXm9qS9sgXrDdMH_1K1PQzHg_4-6NQ,,&typo=1 > > > > Malament, D. (1977), “Observationally Indistinguishable Space-Times,” in J. > > Earman, C. Glymour, and J. 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