If you can actually follow the argument presented in that exchange, you see the opposite position is suggested. If science was about asserting 'obviou...
Guess I'd make a lousy solipsist because no, that doesn't make sense to me, and here I am, an idealist of a weird sort. You're saying the original uni...
No, but do those exist to a solipsist? Why count them? Why simulate them? You talking about the scale of the container universe simulating this one? T...
Continuously expanding or not, I can conceivably count the electrons in it, so it seems countably infinite, no? As for the solipsist thing to which yo...
It goes from countable to uncountable when growing 10%? If not, what do you mean by that reply? The universe is not the sort of thing that can be run ...
An infinite universe expanded say 10% does not require more state spaces any more than a busload of new guests requires expansion of Hilbert's hotel. ...
Alrighty then. Not arbitrary. In all such cases, the speed of the waves is pretty much fixed (isotropic) only relative to the medium. Not a need for i...
You're ignoring my posts above. Surely you're aware of the dual nature of light. Yes, light refracts, which is very much swimming like a duck. Not den...
The medium in this case is the rope, not the air. The air carries resulting sound waves perhaps, but not the wave in the rope, which would be there ev...
Fairly good description there, but the phrase 'waves of probability' hardly fits that. Yes, there is a wave function, and yes, the function is probabi...
None of those require a preferred frame for the fields. Any theory corresponding to the ether would need to. All empirical evidence for real waves (li...
OK. Sounds a little like Conway game of Life which has an objective medium, undetectable directly, but the activity of which determines the physical p...
I never said they were the same. You can make the two things billiard balls if you like. The moving one is half the length and twice the mass of other...
The term 'activity' comes from you, and you did not seem to be referring to the activity of each clock, but rather to the ether or something else in t...
I mean one clock stationary and another right next to it (momentarily at least), but moving at high velocity. The 'activity' at that location is the s...
If this is a quick note I'd hate to see one of your long ones. The evidence for stuff in supposed vacuum is not evidence that said stuff acts as a med...
I think not since that theory makes predictions. I suppose that explains the hunt for the ether, even though I don't think it is posited to be detecta...
Yes, it says that, despite no signal going back. Only forth. At no point does that page say that the measurement was invalid (cannot be done to arbitr...
Lorentz did not hold to the postulates of relativity. In particular, he denied the first one (that dates back to the time of Galileo). The Galilean pr...
I always wondered about this claim. The first speed of light measurement was done using a one way method. It can still be done today with far greater ...
You're not being very clear about what you're trying to say. I see you starting a rant about fighting for the truth, which says to me that you claim t...
Until you falsify the other interpretation, it's opinion, not truth, and opinion isn't worth the militant fighting. A great thing if you can, but if y...
This was a reply to me 5 months ago and I never saw it. You mean the Earth and sun are A and B respectively? The distance between them does change all...
Thank you for illustrating my point. I use the two terms interchangeably. The preferred frame and the absolute one refer to the same thing. Yes, that'...
In this case, he seems to be talking about the absolute/preferred frame interpretation (Lorentz and such) vs the mainstream interpretation that says t...
It seems if there are three valid contradictory positions, then nobody can be justified in their belief using any empirical evidence since they're not...
The differences between the two interpretations of relativity (relative or absolute frames) and the differences between two interpretations of time (b...
With the apples I can open the fridge and set the two side by side and it is clear which one is more decayed. With two clocks receding from each other...
Motion by definition is relative. I said they both move relative to each other. The absolute way would be relative to some implied absolute frame, so ...
You seem to only be able to think in absolute terms. That works as well. The simplest case then is Earth is arbitrarily designated as stationary and B...
No. The original setup is that the two move apart from each other. There is no designation of either of them being the stationary one. Under absolute ...
I never said one is traveling through space and the other isn't. I said each was stationary relative to a different inertial reference frame. You're u...
No, they can't. One would have to accelerate and become stationary in a different frame. The other twin ages slower in that frame as well, but in that...
And I have. I'm a newbie there. This, on the other hand, is philosophy: You lost me there. In their own frames (a block concept), they travel no spati...
I could not make any sense of the new method. The old CADO/CMIF one was worded from a sort of idealistic perspective, but otherwise it didn't seem out...
I'm not representing it, just categorizing it. Presentism isn't one fixed belief system, so I'm not telling you your beliefs. I'm just reacting to you...
You're an absolutist and presentist I see, but claiming you can demonstrate it seems a bit too much. So you misrepresenting relativity theory is sort ...
This is a serious misrepresentation of what the theory says. Upon the turnaround, the space twin sees pretty much the same exact time on the Earth twi...
Probably not. I already know about it, so the prediction changes nothing. Suppose the problem went away. Suppose some trivial solution existed and the...
This seems to conflict with this subsequent statement: OK, maybe not, since both are wrong. Physicists do not differ about this, although they might w...
Tegmark is not suggesting the universe is a structure of language expressions. You're confusing mathematics with the methods used to convey mathematic...
Well surprise, because Tegmark is a physicist by profession where empirical results count. His dabbling on the side into metaphysics produces no falsi...
First of all, Tegmarks premise there is not what is usually referred to as the theory of everything. The latter is what you're talking about here: Tha...
C is not at rest relative to either A or B. Of course it is, yet your OP suggested otherwise, stating that the distance AB must be changing if the pos...
Whatever happened to 4: None of the above. The vast majority (like all) objects C are at rest relative to neither A nor B. Some of it depends on your ...
Sure. The moon is already trying to do this, and the tides are the result of the water trying to fall up as you say. Pass a mass close enough and it w...
As for there being other universes, the term is left completely undefined. For instance, the region of space centered 100 billion light years away is ...
This assertion is of course nonsense since there is no evidence whatsoever that neither time nor distance cannot be divided after some point. It's jus...
If we're propagating to the stars, then the galaxy is my species' natural home. My species' natural home is somewhere in Africa, and I have been kept ...
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