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I've got another one for you. "Spacetime" also does not exist. Time doesn't exist as a force of nature or tangible entity, it's nothing more than a subjective
by adventured 2y ago
I've got another one for you.
"Spacetime" also does not exist. Time doesn't exist as a force of nature or tangible entity, it's nothing more than a subjective measurement. It exists like your height measurement exists, or the measurement of four meters of distance from you to the wall exists. The matter contained in the space of distance being measured exists, and the events between (subjective) time measurements existed, time itself does not exist. You can measure your height from the ceiling to your head (impractical but you can do it). You can measure time based on Mars going around the Sun. Neither entity exists (your height, nor time; both are subjective based on the anchor chosen). It would be silly to think height measurements are a tangible force of nature, we'll call it HeightSpace, now we must discover how it rules over the universe and seek to observe its magic principles.
The bogus nature of "spacetime" has held back multiple fields for many decades. It has wasted a generation of brains that fell for it.
- 1oooqooq 2y ago... uh, that is (sort of) the common place view since a couple centuries.
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- brianf0 2y agoThis seems obvious and is how I have always understood it. How is this not the case? Where is time treated like a tangible entity?
- sebzim4500 2y agoWhere does your view diverge from special (or general) relativity? The fact that the time axis is observer dependent has been an accepted part of physics for a century.
- agos 2y agoluckily, a serial entrepreneur from hacker news has seen where theoretical physicists could not!
- vundercind 2y agoThe insight at the beginning of this is exactly one of the things that enabled the development of relativity and the notion of spacetime.
- Workaccount2 2y ago> You can measure time based on Mars going around the Sun You can also measure it by using something non-subjective, like atomic state oscillations that are identical anywhere in the universe. You can then use this as a counter while watching entropy increase, and see that you are moving in a single direction as those oscillations tick. That doesn't leave much room for subjectivity at all.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoEmergent phenomena are just as real as fundamental phenomena in the plain spoken-language sense. A wall's existence is only subjective if you are prevented from walking through it but the cat passes right on through because it feels there's no wall. We don't yet know whether time is emergent or fundamental. It most certainly exists.