XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 22/12/2025 6:49 am, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/20/25 05:48, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> On 20/12/2025 06:32, c186282 wrote:   
   >>> Time is just an illusion of stupid little 3-D players.   
   >>   
   >> Which is an interesting philosophical position.   
   >>   
   >> Most of the quantum problems arise because we consider time and space   
   >> to be absolutes, rather than simply a way a local observer structures   
   >> his perception of the world.   
   >>   
   >> No matter what advanced maths e.g. Penrose does, he is always trying   
   >> to express quantum physics in terms of classical reality. Never the   
   >> other way around...   
   >   
   >    Is there any reason to think time, as generally viewed,   
   >    applies in dimensions 4-10 ???   
      
   I thought Time WAS our fourth dimension.   
      
   >    There are a few "instantaneous" QM-related events, like   
   >    the resolution of entanglement. Doesn't matter if the   
   >    particles are across the universe - ZAP ! - so for those   
   >    kinds of events 'time' really doesn't exist.   
   >   
   >    Hmm ... maybe "as generally viewed" doesn't even apply   
   >    to dimensions 1-3 either. Consider the possibility that   
   >    time actually lurches back and forth rapidly, seconds,   
   >    days, aeons maybe, and only AVERAGES "ahead". Everything,   
   >    MAYbe the same, over and over and over. How would we know ? :-)   
   >   
   >    Oh, also worry about merging black holes. The closer you   
   >    get to the event horizon the slower time becomes, until   
   >    it's zero. The things shouldn't be able to EVER merge.   
   >    Yet, we get gravity-wave confirmations ...   
   >   
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