Re: About time
- From: lebel@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Aug 2006 19:37:27 -0700
Henry,
I have been working for some time on a logical understanding of the
phenomenon of gravitation that makes use of our empirical knowledge,
physics.
In the end, I resorted to the two basic metaphysical questions about
the universe:
What is it made of and what rules does it follow.
My answer to these two questions are:
1- A continual explosive process which we associate with the passage of
time
2- Simple rules of logic.
This approach eliminates the need for an experience or an oberver.
A dynamical substance as an explosive process can assume many
variations:
Its rate of evolution can vary in a multitude of ways: increasing,
decreasing, going from one to the other etc. A whole collection of
states can/could exist that include matter, waves etc.
All these states being made of one same substance , they could be
operational on one another via rules of logic .. by themself i.e in a
spontaneous way.
Lets look at one possible example. The assumption is that "space" is
the basic substance and explosive process (Big Bang process). Matter is
different
variations of the same substance..... Then, the presence of matter
replaces logically "space' because the same substance cannot be both
the
basic form AND the variation form. i.e variation and non-variation at
the same time!
The rule of non contradiction prevails.
This logical substitution causes an explosive deficit -of time- where
matter is. The relative slowing down of time by the presence of matter
is a given in physics. BUT, physics does not extract the logical cause
from its data since it is content with the empirical aspect.
Why do object fall ? Because existence is a time dependant property. In
the gradient of slower passage of time around a mass, anything that
exists will exist more on average in the direction where the passage of
time is relatively slower, i.e toward the earth, planet or whatever. A
planet and a moon will both tend to exist more toward each other.
Everything that exist replaces some exploding time and thereore slows
down time, and slower time makes existence (as position) more probable
in a specific direction = everything attracts everything else =
universal (logical) attraction.
....... In short: A multiple-state dynamical single substance universe
CAN evolve spontaneously by following simple -built-in-* rules of
logic. It appears that the universe has been evolving by itself for
the last 14 billion years, so this is the kind of approach we need in
order to
understand the universe as a spontaneous phenomenon.
* Some simple rule of logic cannot be transgressed in any known
field. This choiceless fact may point to an actual rule that the
universe follows.
Marcel,
.
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