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   The Natural Philosopher to All   
   Re: Cars, engines...   
   22 Dec 25 12:56:08   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 21/12/2025 21:39, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/21/25 15:03, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >> 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'   
   >    There is no spoon ?   :-)   
   >   
   >    "Our way of looking at stuff" SERVES, well, nearly   
   >    a billion years.   
      
   There is no time.:-)   
      
      
      
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   the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."   
      
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