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What is this time thing you speak of? What is this "inside" of time that you imply the existence of? An extrapolation from the one-electron-universe hypothesis
by madaxe_again 12y ago
What is this time thing you speak of? What is this "inside" of time that you imply the existence of?
An extrapolation from the one-electron-universe hypothesis is that the entire universe exists within a single point - this is why constants are constant across the universe, why matter is the same everywhere, why particles share properties, how tunnelling works, etc. - we just perceive it as being uncompacted from our reference frame, whatever or wherever that may be. Elements of some SUSY theories touch on this too - that there is only one string, that the universe is a projection from higher dimensions "curled up" in a planck-scale point....
Frankly, we can't know, and I'm not sure that we ever really can, due to the limitations of our faculties, and the rooting of our "reality" in how this particular collection of molecular machinery interacts with other physicality around it.
- xyzzy123 12y agoIt's a (mathematically) multidimensional thing; if things can "move" there are clearly dimensions those things can be spread across. There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has to vary.
- pyrois 12y ago> There are lots of things we can't know, but it's like toothpaste; if we posit certain things as fixed, if our observations mean anything, something else has to vary. ...how is that like toothpaste? I don't disagree with what you're saying, but... toothpaste?
- kenbellows 12y agoSeconded. Your analogy is like a banana tree; no matter how many things vary, a horse is not an elephant.
- nilkn 12y agoI have no idea, but maybe... by keeping the tube fixed, we know that it must be the toothpaste which will move?