> Art Deco wrote:
>> ah gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Art Deco wrote:
>>>> ah gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>Jeff?Relf wrote:
>>>>>> In oh-so-very-human 3-D,
>>>>>> the earth's orbit has angular momentum and ³ action ² is
conserved;
>>>>>> not so in the ( unimaginable ) 4-D world that's intrinsic to
nature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The earth is moving in a staight line.. but spacetime is curved.
>>>>>> The spacetime continuum is also known as hyperspace,
>>>>>> i.e. the 4-D gravitational field, a hyperstructure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Randomness is ignorance, nothing more.
>>>>>> When a system is fully known it can be modeled in 4-D;
>>>>>> otherwise its a 3-D model or ( worse ) a statistical model.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For some light reading on this topic see
>>>>>> this philosophical novel about World War II and 4-D hyperspace:
>>>>>> ³ Slaughterhouse-Five;
>>>>>> or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death ².
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Einstein said:
>>>>>> ³ I see a pattern,
>>>>>> but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern.
>>>>>> I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> so how can it conceive of a God,
>>>>>> before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as
one ? ².
>>>>>> -- ³ The Expanded Quotable Einstein ²,
>>>>>> Princeton University Press, 2000 Page 208
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Petkov ( 2005 ) has this to say:
>>>>>> ³ This paper pursues two aims.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First, to show that the block universe view, regarding the
universe as
>>>>>> a timelessly existing four-dimensional world,
>>>>>> is the only one that is consistent with special relativity.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Second, to argue that special relativity alone can resolve
>>>>>> the debate on whether the world is
>>>>>> three-dimensional or four-dimensional.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The argument advanced in the paper is that
>>>>>> if the world were three-dimensional
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the kinematic consequences of special relativity and more
importantly
>>>>>> the experiments confirming them would be impossible. ².
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- ³ Is There an Alternative to the Block Universe View ? ²
>>>>>>
http://Philsci-Archive.Pitt.EDU/archive/00002408/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From Einstein's, " Ether and the Theory of Relativity " ( 1920 )
>>>>>> quoted at "
http://TUHH.DE/rzt/rzt/it/Ether.html ":
>>>>>>
>>>>>> " But this ether may not be thought of as
>>>>>> endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media,
>>>>>> as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The idea of motion may not be applied to it. ".
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>You are Richard Hoagland, AICMF£!
>>
>> A porpoise? It's gotta be the Darla socks?
>
> Everything is a Darla sock.
> --
> ah
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