What is limiting us?

[Farsight]

Can I chip in to say I don't think this is an issue with academia. It's far wider than that. It's a psychological issue that affects more people more widely than is generally appreciated. Yes, String Theory has been a problem, but it's just another example of the spectrum of belief that we see in all spheres of life ranging from suicide bombers to fashion. The problems we see in religion aren't actually because of the religion. It's because of the people. And to varying degrees, we see similar problems in science, particularly amongst theoretical physicists and mathematicians who are sometimes somewhat disconnected from experiment.

[Profpat]

I think there are 3 main branches of physics, and all are necessary. Theoritical, experimental and applied. The theoritical and experimental usually comes from the university and governmental backed projects. The applied usually from industry.

Einstein theory on spacetime wasn't able to be demonstrated until exoeriments were thought of to confirm his theory. Now that we know it, we find that it is necessary to apply it to the GPS system. Without constant resetting of the satellites clocks the GPS would never work.

Einstein was right, time is not an absolute but subject to velocity and gravity.

Again my hat's off to ALL physicists who makes my microwave work.

Best to all,

Pat

[Max™]

An insistence on clinging to some form of particle models, and an unwillingness to accept time as an important and real aspect of reality?

[dleviwing]

I am absolutely amazed at how far the misconceptions of time due to the misconceptions of Relativity has been ingrained into the general populous.

[Max™]

Indeed, in the last few months since I decided to start writing these thoughts I had in theory form, I've spent a good portion of that time looking to see if they had already been proposed.

Instead I find, time and time again, theories proposing that everything would be simpler if you just ignored time. Time is an illusion, time doesn't matter, etc, etc, etc.

Sit down, turn the volume on everything down, turn the lights off, get comfortable, close your eyes.

Feel that?

You can feel yourself existing, without any external source of information, you are aware of time.

Why are so many so quick to disregard that entirely and propose an idea without it?

[Profpat]

To deny time is to deny motion.

[Farsight]

I know about time. Time exists all right. But it isn't what most people think.

We don't travel in time at one second per second. We travel in space, and we don't travel in time at all. Clocks clock up motion, not time. Relativistic clocks don’t travel through in time at different rates, they travel through space at fractions of c. If they collide, they collide at the same location at the same "time", whatever their faces say is local time. To travel backwards in time we'd need to unevent events, and we'd need negative motion. But motion is motion whichever way it goes. You can’t have negative motion, just as you can’t have negative carpets. So we can't travel back in time. There are no time travel paradoxes, because there is no time travel, and there is no time travel because time is merely a measure of motion, and motion is travel, and you can’t travel through travel. Or in other words:

Time exists like heat exists, being an emergent property of motion. It's a cumulative measure of motion used in the relative measure of motion compared to the motion of light, and the only motion is through space. So time has no length, time doesn’t flow and we don’t travel through it.

[Felix Schrodinger]

An insistence on clinging to some form of particle models, and an unwillingness to accept time as an important and real aspect of reality?

Hi Max

Your byline in somewhat arguable: "Schrödinger killed my cat, so I'm going to try to kill probabilistic quantum theory as revenge"

Sorry to disappoint but I'm still here and probabilities are just as fundamental as time.

regards
Felix

[Felix Schrodinger]

I know about time. Time exists all right. But it isn't what most people think.

Hi John

I'm still reading your book so can't address your model in detail yet. However, to date, my impression is that your are confusing time with the measurement of time.

regards
Felix

[Max™]

Well, it's a joke, as he didn't actually kill MY cat.

He did die in 61 though, so it's a different Schrödinger I'm speaking of.

I do need to clarify that though, the probabilities will still apply, it's just the non-local wave function part I'm trying to kill.