It seems not to be. It would probably violate SR if it was. Yes. What is: Space is expanding everywhere equally(ish) at all simultaneous points. I say...
That is one thin explanation. If what Alice did wasn't complex enough to objectively collapse the wave function, she should be able to measure the sub...
Since none of this is new (it is demanded by QM right from the early days), how do any of the objective collapse interpretations get around this? Does...
Not defining something undetectable (in SR) is fine, and I suppose the standard presentation of SR is that there isn't one. But GR, to the embarrassme...
I never seem to see these replies until many hours later. I'm just not on this site as often as I used to be. I compared what Alice did to what the mi...
Some random thoughts. This is the trolley problem, except I presume we are killing the truck operator who arguably has some fault in letting this situ...
Don't know what you mean by 'reverse polarity', but yes, Alice can take her knowledge of the result and put in on paper and mail it to somebody, and t...
Sounds like if H is also factorizable into H3 and H4 instead of just H1 and H2, H3 and H4 'exist' as much as the other two, and yet cannot exist in di...
Close. It isn't philosophy at all. The 'interpretation', unlike other philosophical interpretations of QM, is just a scientific statement concerning w...
I have to disagree about the restrictions to communication you convey above. Alice knows the result of a measurement, and that makes for 2 Alice's now...
Agree. MWI says there is an objective reality, but it is entirely in superposition, and measurement just entangles the measurer with the measured thin...
They're not. They're spinning it as something new. But if they've actually disproven the principle of counterfactual definiteness like the wording of ...
Most interpretations reject it. You take away Bohmian mechanics and Stochastic and Transactional interpretations, the latter two being interpretations...
That the photon's state is in superposition. The other measurement is not in superposition with the photon. I suppose you can word it that the result ...
The wording of the paper seems to be a argument against counterfactual definiteness (an objective reality). I'm all for that since I don't think there...
All four of them are invalid, but the 2nd one might just be poorly worded. I would have concluded that one cannot be a valuable asset to both your sch...
It seems that few posters know their theory very well. Einstein did not reason thus, nor did he conclude that time slows for any observer. Anybody wil...
I was going to ask you about games played on alien planets that don't necessarily exist in our observable universe, but the AI question is a good star...
According to the OP, we're talking about possible chess games (some huge number), not actually played ones (as per Marchesk's constructivist definitio...
Off topic: Shannon miscalculates. The average sensible game might last 80 moves, but the average legal game averages about 5000 moves, so the number i...
The two words are different. Phenomenon implies an experienced thing, whereas change does not imply experience. So two concepts, since it makes sense ...
Got to go for now. If time was distinguishable in the million-decay example, then you could distinguish the events running forwards (with half of the ...
I brought up effects and differences and distinctions and such. It is my counterexample. My example showed something where change was quite measurable...
OK, I was finding inconsistency with "I'm saying that what time is ontologically is change or motion". Your 'proposal' is perhaps something else. I wa...
OK, I think I described how I'm using the word in my prior post. Heh... I read you wrong. You said 'situation', not 'simulation'. So much for the eyes...
What post again? My take on something being meaningful is that X is meaningful if there is a distinction between a system with X and a system without ...
I had one particle at first, but immediately moved on to the example of a million such particles. Agree. My example illustrates that: change without m...
Yes. The changes are the particles that have already decayed, and the ones that have not. There is nothing else to go on. The change is the decay of o...
Don't understand what you're saying. It doesn't need to be any particular amount of time for the one wheel to change twice as fast as the other. I cho...
Two equal size wheels spinning, and one goes around twice as fast as the other. That seems to be twice the motion (change) in the same time. The one c...
OK, but twice as much motion is not twice as much time. It's like saying that momentum is kinetic energy. An object can't have one without the other, ...
More consecutive funniness. I'm contrasting this with what Terrapin quotes immediately after: So you loosely agree that time without change is not mea...
Fair enough. You said physicists have determined that, and they don't claim that. With that I agree. "I changed my political viewpoint after the last ...
Another fallacious mistake. I said you cannot assert that a change has not taken place just because it cannot be measured. But you are asserting exact...
Sorry to jump in on this discussion, but you contradict yourself. Physicists have determined no such thing, especially since this would violate conser...
I have to agree with Luke on this one. 'Passage of time' implies flow to the average person, and I don't think the typical eternalist would ever use t...
Interaction implies two way relationship, so perhaps a 1-way interaction. The moon is a poor example since we're in the gravitational field of the moo...
Agree, but a hypersurface is 3D surface in a 4D space, and under presentism, there is no 4D space, only the 3D 'all of reality'. It isn't a hypersurfa...
Then choose another word to refer to what I'm describing, else we cannot communicate. So when I open the box to check if the cat is dead or alive, wha...
I had mentioned the rock above. Yes, it very much is a measurement. Thing X (source of photon) has now caused an effect on said rock, and X now exists...
We have different definitions of measurement. I'm speaking of measurement in the QM wave-function collapse sort of way. That interaction is 'actually ...
It takes time to gather all information about the spread-out state into one point (said future event) which can be anywhere, not necessarily an event ...
Measurement doesn't require processing. The light hits me somewhere (eyes, toenail, whatever) and I've measured the moon. It exists to me now. The pro...
All (reasonably local, like not outside the Hubble Sphere) parts exist in all frames. Being not all in one place means I am not in a defined state exc...
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