Re: Painful but inevitable resignation

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:17:50 -0800

Eckard Blumschein wrote:
>
> I quote from a book by Zeh 2001:
>
> 'According to Carnap (1963), ... "said that the problem of the Now
> worried him seriously. He explained that the experience of the Now means
> something special for man, something essentially different from the past
> and from the future, but this important difference does not and cannot
> occur within physics.
[snip]

Perhaps he should learn some physics before commenting upon it. One
does not even need the arrow of entropy to define past and future.
Angular momentum will do it all by itself - and acceleration is an
absolute measurement. Zeh, and Carnip before him, and who knows what
other blubbering moron before Carnip erect straw men then complain
about needles not hidden therein.

"Last night I looked upon the stair and didn't see a man not there.
He wasn't there again today. I wish that that man would go way!" No,
that is too subtle for you. Try this: When you run up a flight of 14
steps and there are only twelve, upon what do you stumble at the top?

> While I already offered a bold but
> unrefuted alternative, denying the possibility of a travel backward in
> time.
[snip]

   1) Hey stooopid - time travel backward violates causality. The
universe does not tolerate contradiction.
   2) Hey stooopid - time travel forward is as easy as sitting on your
ass for a minute.
   3) Hey stooopid - time travel in either direction at any interval
size simply breaks off a closed world loop and you *still* haven't
gone anywhere you would not otherwise be.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the plasma torch. 

-- 
Uncle Al
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