tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post1754591026560173043..comments2023-05-11T17:35:12.051+10:00Comments on cosmic rapture: why it's OK to murder your grandfathermasterymisteryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-84888590468123150142013-10-31T07:27:23.747+11:002013-10-31T07:27:23.747+11:00Hi mgeorge, I think it is cooperative deception th...Hi mgeorge, I think it is cooperative deception that is actually bringing down extreme harm on the human race these days. We are cooperatively destroying everything in sight, and mainly deceiving ourselves that it's all gonna be alright on the night. <br /><br />In professional wrestling, the basic dynamic is "pretend to hurt, and to get hurt, but in fact avoid hurting and avoid getting hurt"<br /><br />In human culture today, the basic dynamic is "pretend to avoid hurting anything or getting hurt, but in fact get out there and cause as much hurt as you can as long as you get yours". <br /><br />Re backward time travel, reminds me of the numerous examples of leading physicists who have said this or that is impossible (eg people travelling by train) only to be proven wrong.<br /><br />The grandfather paradox is a fearsome beast. I'm not claiming that my little thought about using the many worlds model to resolve the paradox, actually resolves the paradox. But I think it does invite an answer to the question: Why can't all possibilities be true as long as they don't interfere with each other.<br /><br />Thanks for your comments. Cheers, MMmasterymisteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-65694223757897732112013-10-30T17:01:04.850+11:002013-10-30T17:01:04.850+11:00"Professional wrestling illustrates cooperati..."Professional wrestling illustrates cooperative deception, which protects participants from extreme harm and thwarts tedium. We also see this in science, economics, business, war, politics and love." - Eric Weinstein, 2011<br /><br />Theoretical physics allows a lot of leeway, without anyone laughing in your face, just like theology. The current consensus among the druids seems to be that backward travel in time, and even sending info backwards, is not possible. <br /><br />Forward travel is on sound footing. It is old hat in science fiction, having taken off after H G Wells or Einstein. In a typical scenario, the travellers in their advanced ship bring salvation to a devastated Earth - a sort of Peace Corps of the future. In reality, it seems that those travelling even 100 years into the furure are likely to be irrelevant, except as temporary curiosities. Morover, we are from from even a conception of how spacecraft will even be shielded. As for sending info into the future, perhaps it can be used to fight censorship. mgeorgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-55315837481466888952013-10-30T08:28:15.666+11:002013-10-30T08:28:15.666+11:00Ricky, that's a really neat resolution of the ...Ricky, that's a really neat resolution of the "Many Worlds" and "Copenhagen Interpretation". Works for me. Thanks for expanding my knowledge. Cheers, MM masterymisteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-48886217061689975912013-10-29T23:05:02.307+11:002013-10-29T23:05:02.307+11:00One of the explanation of the double slit experime...One of the explanation of the double slit experiment, is that when the electron/photon is confronted with the choice of 2 slits. The electron/photon doesn’t split into 2, but rather it splices reality into 2. One for going through each of the slits, and hence a new universe with an alternate ending is created.. <br /><br />Its the same thing in concept, to time travel and killing the grand father. <br /><br />I suppose with each and every decision we creates an alternate reality. In an infinite multi-verse.<br /><br />And yet there is unity/cosmic-oneness. When un-observed the universe is an un-determined state.<br />Schrodingers’ car is both death and alive, until the box is opened.<br /> <br /><br /> Ricky grewalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01780583100797527074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-66936857047607380752013-10-28T23:05:31.437+11:002013-10-28T23:05:31.437+11:00mgeorge, sorry, couldn't resist the following ...mgeorge, sorry, couldn't resist the following hypothetical dialogue:<br /><br />Cosmologist: The Universe consists of 11 dimensions. <br /><br />Average Jo: How come we can't see them?<br /><br />Cosmologist: They're very small.<br /><br />Average Jo: Can't we use very powerful microscopes?<br /><br />Cosmologist: Nah. They're rolled up too tightly: compactified you see. <br />masterymisteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-86307512873009402452013-10-28T22:55:01.853+11:002013-10-28T22:55:01.853+11:00Hi mgeorge,
re the cosmologists, it's a stra...Hi mgeorge, <br /><br />re the cosmologists, it's a strange sort of "post hoc" pontification. <br /><br />It seems, to me at least, that what you DON'T do is think about how many dimensions the universe does/could/should have, then build a theory around that thinking, then conduct an experiment to test your hypothesis. <br /><br />What you DO is build the theory first. Then you search for numbers/values that don't break the theory. Oh, and you never test your hypothesis: it is acknowledged that it is impossible to test the hypotheses of string theory experimentally. <br /><br />The question about people and their brains is: was it ever thus? I think that peoples' rationality and the quality of their decision-making have both been roughly stable (at a very low base) for a very long time, but that it is only in recent times, 1) that it is becoming more evident, and easier to measure and identify due to improvements in testing techniques and an improving understanding of human psychology. <br /><br />It's also easier to identify and measure because the effects are becoming very dramatic and plain to see, though apparently not for everyone. GRoupthink on a global scale at work. <br /><br />The irony is that the more most of us come to depend on technology the less most of us understand it.<br /><br />Thanks for your comments. Cheers, MMmasterymisteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-58120696518035658362013-10-28T18:20:06.954+11:002013-10-28T18:20:06.954+11:00Even in matters that are a lot less esoteric, the ...Even in matters that are a lot less esoteric, the outlook for rationality is dim:<br /><br />http://www.alternet.org/media/most-depressing-discovery-about-brain-ever<br /><br />http://www.alternet.org/culture/theres-such-thing-human-nature-rightmgeorgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-64154992361327081832013-10-28T18:04:57.726+11:002013-10-28T18:04:57.726+11:00They can't make up their minds on the number o...They can't make up their minds on the number of universes, dimensions, etc. before they pontificate. Meanwhile, politicians find it convenient to allocate lots of moolah for them to solve "fundamental" questions - supposedly far more important than other issues facing humanity.mgeorgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-50542726458009404572013-10-25T10:00:06.439+11:002013-10-25T10:00:06.439+11:00Hi just another Martin,
I agree with your way of ...Hi just another Martin,<br /><br />I agree with your way of thinking about time. It is a concept, an idea, a word, a piece of language. We invented it in the first place. We think we know what the word "time" means, but that's only because we defined the word in the first place. <br /><br />It's very hard to prove that time exists. It may be impossible, but it is at least very hard. For sure, there is no absolute time, only relative time: Einstein taught us that.<br /><br />The meaning of time depends on the scale/context/stage on which it plays out. If the scale is the entire universe, then there is no time: everything happens at once, everywhere. <br /><br />If I am as big as the entire Universe, then something that happens at the tip of the finger of my right arm happens at exactly the same time as something that happens at the tip of my finger of my left arm, even though there is an entire universe of space --- trillions of trillions of lights years --- between my arms. <br /><br />And lastly, many people say that time is an illusion. Well, that may be. But if time is an illusion, it is a real illusion. The illusion really exists. It's more accurate to say, I think, that Time is not what we think it is, rather than to describe it as an illusion.<br /><br />Thanks for your comments, and for stopping by. Cheers, MMmasterymisteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15844831221838590812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203307449470951304.post-9002306515676284482013-10-25T07:12:25.462+11:002013-10-25T07:12:25.462+11:00Hi
Its very Nice to do some judo with time theorie...Hi<br />Its very Nice to do some judo with time theories. But sorry:-)<br />First prove me time does exist<br />I think thats inpossible.<br />Time is a concept an idea<br />A shared hypnotism in my thoughts.<br />So how about that :-).just another Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18261974521634096054noreply@blogger.com