tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post628139464755574747..comments2024-03-27T19:47:13.475-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: The present is real, the past is goneRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-37008932802401493042014-03-14T10:11:34.060-07:002014-03-14T10:11:34.060-07:00How can Mr. Greene believe his own words? I am goi...How can Mr. Greene believe his own words? I am going to make the assumption that the man can count to ten. If he can do this, then he must acknowledge there was a 'before' he started to count, and an 'after' when he had finished. Likewise, while he was counting, one...two...three...etc. each number preceded the next, until the count was ten. If past, present, and future are all equally real at the same time, how was this progression possible to undertake? If past, present, and future are all one thing, how could any process occur in any particular order at all? How can any operation mathematically occur without logical rules of order? Lack of a before and after also short circuits all possible causality, which is a necessary precondition for all science to function. <br /> Perhaps Mr. Greene should have studied computer architecture instead of speculative math. If he had done so, he would be more intimately aware of how vital a clock, time, and timing are to making any logical operation or computation even remotely possible. Foolishness like Mr. Greene's 'causality free' time speculations is why physics is becoming increasingly closed and irrelevant to people who aren't willing to jettison their reason just so they can claim to be 'educated'.<br /> I also fail to see how anyone can be deluded enough to think that if their physics model does not contain an explanation for something (like the direction of time) that the reality therefore must also not contain such a thing. A mathematical or physics model is at best a constructed thing of assumptions, if the model functions at all, it is only in accordance to those assumptions, not the totality of the underlying reality of the model maker. C.Takacsnoreply@blogger.com