Re: Time is an illusion

> What's your point?
> Mine is that the Aether has substance.
> Empty space-time doesn't.
> After all how can emptiness curve?
>
> What if you quantize by the infinitesimal Lefty?
> That way the continuum is retained.


The point is quite simply this.

That time can be measured with a clock, and therefore is not an illusion. It
is the 4th dimension.

But if you think that time is quantized, you get all of these crazy
paradoxes - like an object being older than it already is, etc.

You even have well respected physicists talking about "slits in time".

If time ceases to exist relativistically, due to vast differences in scale,
the paradox is resolved. And you dont need slits in time either - which
dosent really seem to make much sense anyway
- even though it sounds pretty cool.

Lastly - Planck and Einstein lived in very difficult times. Science
definately felt the impact of the politics of their day. The Nazis hated
Einstein and relativity. Even if Planck thought that time was affected by
relativistic effects - would he have been in danger for saying so ? Makes
you wonder. Planck died in 1947.













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