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Why More Physicists Are Starting to Think Space and Time Are ‘Illusions’
(Alexander Iulianus)
Sadly for them, Platonism is true, and awaited them at the end of empiricism.
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I’ve actually done some reading up on this subject recently. This is oversimplified, but should hopefully be at least sort of understandable to anyone who isn’t that into physics: Newtonian Physics basically treated space and time as a mediums that objects exist within. Relativity fused space and time together into a single medium and dumped some of the baggage that Newtonian Physics has. In recent years there has been a growing trend towards trying to figure out what the consequences to Relativity and Quantum Mechanics would be if you treated space and time not as a medium, but as a relationship between objects. Some are going even further, treating them as an emergent property of the relationship between objects, rather than thing(s) in themselves.
As always, there are naysayers, science is never a monolith. But there are a lot of physicists who believe this approach will help uncover exactly where our current theories are a bit wrong, and perhaps even lead to a true Theory of Everything. At the very least it might help with breaking out of old ways of thinking.
People who don’t quite grasp it seem to be thinking that “space and time are illusions” means something like “things exist, but they don’t exist anywhere.” I don’t entirely blame them, but that’s not really what that means. At minimum, *some* property corresponding to distance and change certainly exists, because we can measure it. It’s just that, while very useful in our daily lives, our brain’s model of that property might not be even remotely accurate to what it fundamentally represents.
Einstein no longer exists: but he was proved right when two black holes collided thus causing ripples in space-time a century later.
Plato no longer existed way before: Priorities, The Anus Press & Alex Anus, Priorities .
Prof. Stephen Hawking no longer exists, but we can see the legacy of his thinking. Have you seen your brains, o OPs? No? Well, then:
It's not only your 'minds' that never existed in the first place, if we're to go by your own 'Logic'...!
“The incessant pursuit of empiricism was lauded by atheists for its promise of finally destroying religious superstition and put in its place a robustly godless account of reality free from divinity.”
A wordy attempt to say, ‘science gets results, not so much the occult.’
@Spacewyrm #161198
True, but this actually isn’t the first time I’ve posted something by Alexander Iulianus here :D. He’s even the author of the “Kabbalah is the path to Tartarus” quote, which made it to the FOTY 2020 vote, though at that time I didn’t know the name he was using yet.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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