Agustino

Yes, but if materialism were true (which is what we have to assume for their explanation to make sense), then your subjective experience of time flowi...

Why do you say that?

Imagine for a moment that everything that happens in the current world speeds up to twice the speed. Objective time, as measured by the light clock, w...

Well, physics obviously speaks about physical time that can be measured by a light clock which is invariant regardless of frame of reference. This is ...

Why?

Nope, Rich has a problem with SR, not with GR.

Yes.

Spacetime effectively is GR.

It depends which equations you elevate to ontology. You should elevate the most general framework. In the case of gravity, this would be general relat...

The assumptions you are worrying about are neither true nor false, but useful. That's why they are assumptions and postulates, and not truths.

Yes, but this belies a complete misunderstanding of how science works. Science doesn't work by finding out what is "true". It works by approximating w...

When you say this, it's just as silly as telling me to drop Euclid's 5th Postulate when doing Euclidean geometry because it's not true. Absurd. Yes, i...

It seems you are confused. When I assume that the internal angles of a triangle are 180 degrees and proceed to calculate using that assumption, I don'...

None, that's why SR, much like Newton's theory and Euclidean geometry provide USEFUL approximations. They're easier to work with and calculate than th...

Are you doing this on purpose?! Do all books on Newton's theories have to be dropped out of the library because his theory has been replaced by GR?! D...

It's as silly as asking why we still calculate using Newton... well, because it works if space is locally flat, which happens to be the case around he...

SR has been dropped when GR has been adopted. Really... you seem behind on science. The only reason SR is taught is the same reason Euclidean geometry...

Yes of course they are! What did you expect? It's like telling me that space is defined differently in Euclidean and Non-Euclidean geometry. This of c...

No it doesn't. Spacetime itself expands faster than light, but spacetime isn't actually an object the way galaxies, planets, etc. are. Galaxies, etc. ...

The same is true in GR.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/134417/is-special-relativity-a-special-case-of-general-relativity-qualitatively

Sorry to disappoint, but I'm still alive >:O

Yes, the US could possibly reduce defense budget to 2-2.5%. My only question is why US military is not tens of years ahead of everyone else already...

SR and GR are not different... This seems to be very pseudo-scientific right here. SR is a special case of GR, which occurs mainly when we're dealing ...

Yes, but you of course ignore how that spending relates to a country's economic power. When we compare it to GDP, we'll see that the US rests around 3...

And I'm an old school spiritualist :P - look at the spiritual climate of the times and try to adjust to it, for you can certainly not change it by you...

Then you ought to certainly cast both of them aside if you really want to rely just on psychology. Okay.

Yes, I've been running, cooking dinner and eating earlier. Hence why I haven't answered you yet. Don't be in such a hurry. Even now I have to finish s...

Right, I fail to see what any of this has to do with the subject matter of the essay. It's just like me telling you don't listen to Wagner because he ...

Yes, there have been quite a few. Have a look at the paper I mentioned.

I disagree. It largely has to do with the era in question. The ages have different governing spiritual principles that dictate the mindset of most peo...

Of course quantum fields can't be defined as non-physical. Why would you think so?

A quantum field isn't 'nothing'. If anything, QM proves that nothing (a pure vacuum) is impossible.

My society makes Trump impossible precisely by changing our values. A philanderer cannot be a cool guy who is admired by his society (even if secretly...

Yes indeed. That's because "international diplomacy" is in truth nothing but a power game. In fact, it doesn't need the mask anyway - this is what you...

Here's our fundamental difference, and why I like Trump while you hate Trump. You believe that something being publically acceptable defines how civil...

I see. But that does mean that you will, at the minimum, be slow to take positions and act towards bringing them about no? I think we should always st...

That is interesting. Now what?

Yeah, what makes it the best? Materialism for that matter is also a "satisfying" solution because it denies that the mind exists in any way transcende...

Why would I in particular not be psychologically open to rational argument? Is it because according to you I lack a certain emotional response? If tha...

Because it seems that you presuppose that me becoming convinced of the wrongness of X entails that I already have a (negative) emotional reaction to i...

Are you an emotivist when it comes to morality? The reason I'm asking is that it seems to me that your point is that you can't rationally convince any...

I doubt it's that easy for him to be financially ruined. How could that happen? He has upward of $50 million, it's not easy to lose that much money, u...

If the video was of Trump hitting any old lady with a golf ball that would have been disgusting and not funny. However, the video is funny because Cli...

I just think you're taking the video too seriously. I don't see how it would legitimise violence against Clinton. It's more like a symbolic video show...

Yes, let's do that when I become a corrupt, narcissistic & dishonest politician funneling money through my foundation :P It's just a funny clip, has n...

What do you mean it's "the best solution" to the mind-body problem? And what does that have to do with the becoming/being dichotomy (flux)?

Well, it is the case for most people in Western societies, where life expectancy is quite high. Yes, this may be true for some non-human organisms, bu...

Yes, I too hold that in the debate between society and individual, the individual ultimately stands superior from a spiritual point of view. I'm not a...

Not that this is a bad thing, it's certainly much better than our Western rampant individualism :P