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   The Natural Philosopher to All   
   Re: Cars, engines...   
   21 Dec 25 20:03:57   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 21/12/2025 19:49, 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 ???   
   >   
   It's just that people cannot get out of the habit of thinking that no   
   matter how weird quantum equations are, the 'normal' world of human   
   experience is the 'real world' and the quantum world is 'imaginary'...   
      
   ...But what if it was the other way around?   
      
      
      
   >    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 ? :-)   
   >   
   I think you are beginning to see the problem.   
      
   Time organises data into causes and effects, but at a quantum level its   
   hard to say what causes effects.   
      
   If indeed *anything* does... Time and space may simply be a *transform*   
   of what is more easily understood as entanglememt, into 'our way of   
   looking at stuff'   
      
      
      
   >    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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