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   Message 223,922 of 225,861   
   Thomas Heger to All   
   Re: The problem of simultaneity   
   11 Oct 25 09:11:04   
   
   From: ttt_heg@web.de   
      
   Am Donnerstag000009, 09.10.2025 um 13:28 schrieb Python:   
   ...   
   >>>>>> If you turn the axis of time upside down, this would be an   
   >>>>>> 'imaginary rotation'.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> This would be a valid timeline, too, but in world, which is made   
   >>>>>> from anti-matter.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Such an 'anti-world' would be perfectly normal, though only for   
   >>>>>> anti- beings living there.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> But we couldn't go there, because contact to anti-matter would   
   >>>>>> make us detonate instantly.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> TH   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> So if my local future were your local past, then the world   
   >>>>> would explode?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No, you would.   
   >>>>   
   >>> OK.   
   >>> Since you are not trying to defend your statement:   
   >>>   
   >>>   "Other observers in other locations have a local future,   
   >>>    too, but that can actually be your past."   
   >>>   
   >>> . . you must have realised that it is meaningless nonsense.   
   >>   
   >> It is an assumption.   
   >>   
   >> This assumption says, that time is local only.   
   >>   
   >> This means: the universe has not really an age, because it 'folds back   
   >> into itself'.   
   >>   
   >> This idea is a little tricky, but imagine a Moebius strip. That has   
   >> only one side, even if a sheet of paper has two.   
   >>   
   >> Now place something (like e.g. yourself) upon one side and walk into   
   >> one direction, then you would end up upside down below your feet and   
   >> would walk into the opposite direction.   
   >>   
   >> Now think about this phenomenon in 3D.   
   >   
   > This is (bad) Science-Fiction literature, not science.   
   >   
   >   
   I had tried to explain a difficult topic in easy words for you and now   
   you complain, that this ain't scientific.   
      
   Sure, it isn't really scientific.   
      
   But if you prefer more scientific explanations, that should be possible   
   as well.   
      
      
   TH   
      
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