PSI Blog 20211206 Eternity and locality
By
Jesse Witwer
[GB: Occasionally
we get interesting links to questions and answers on Quora, which is a
generally regressive social media platform. Here are Jesse’s answers to some of
those usually naïve questions:]
Hi Glenn,
Perhaps your readers
would enjoy my take and addition of Eternity as a fundamental assumption
consupponible with the rest of your assumptions.
I also suggested
Locality.
My answer to “What is
time? I don't understand it at all. Has time always existed and will for
eternity? What is the relativity theory all about?” https://www.quora.com/What-is-time-I-dont-understand-it-at-all-Has-time-always-existed-and-will-for-eternity-What-is-the-relativity-theory-all-about/answer/Jesse-Witwer?ch=15&oid=99060090&share=b0c9224f&srid=ubVZd&target_type=answer
My answer to “Technically
am I just as old as universe because matter can neither be created nor be
destroyed?” https://www.quora.com/Technically-am-I-just-as-old-as-universe-because-matter-can-neither-be-created-nor-be-destroyed/answer/Jesse-Witwer?ch=15&oid=82616848&share=bb12815c&srid=ubVZd&target_type=answer
[GB: Thanks Jesse
for your observations on this. About adding additional assumptions: As I have
written, we could have one or an infinite number of assumptions. They are just
different ways of explaining materialism (i.e., reality). Note that your first
questioner assumes time “exists.” Of course, it does not exist, it occurs. Eternity
is another corollary of infinity and all its other consupponible assumptions.
Locality is another one, which might help folks understand that, while the
universe is infinite, not every part of the universe is involved in any
particular event. That is forbidden by causality, which requires local
collisions to produce effects. I like sticking with 10 assumptions for pedagogical
reasons. Also, I have trouble remembering more than 10 things at once.]
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