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Do you have a line of reasoning for that? Models which take spacetime to be able to be warped, /to my understanding/, make what are currently the predictions w
by drdeca 11y ago
Do you have a line of reasoning for that?
Models which take spacetime to be able to be warped, /to my understanding/, make what are currently the predictions which are most matched by experiment.
I don't know why one would suppose that space and time do not exist, other than as some philosophical idea, but even if one does suppose that, it still appears to work well to model the universe as if they do exist.
One would not expect a Berkeleyan Idealist to complain on every article about nuclear fusion because they do not believe that atoms exist.
If space and time "do not exist", it seems like speaking of them as if they do would be a useful shorthand, in any case (Provided that they yield a useful model, which they seem to.).
- lottin 11y agoThe reasoning is very simple - If space does indeed exist, it must be somewhere, because everything that exists is somewhere, but space can't be anywhere, because if it's somewhere it must be contained in space. How can something be contained within itself? It can't.
- stromgo 11y ago"Matter contained in space contained in space" might be a problem, but "matter contained in space and space existing directly" should be ok, especially if your alternative is "matter existing directly".
- function_seven 11y ago> If space does indeed exist, it must be somewhere It's everywhere.