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Are We Remembering the Future?
- jerf 8y ago"The time axis is like any other axis." No it's not. In the Minkowski metric used by many things such as relativity, distances are defined as SQRT(dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - dt^2). That minus sign is fundamental, and means that the time axis is in fact different, in the ways we observe. If "time" was in fact an axis like any other, it would fundamentally be a fourth spatial dimension. Unfortunately for the author, given that literally the entire rest of the post fundamentally depends on that misconception, there's not much left of the post once you fix that. There's a variety of other related statements that are simply incorrect understandings of modern physics as well, but all are secondary consequences of the mistaken belief that time is just another undistinguished dimension that is somehow treated differently due to some sort of dimensional chauvinism or something. It isn't; it's fundamentally a different type of dimension.