Re: Naturally, there can be no "aether"; Special Relativity Lecture by Michael Fowler


Traveler wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2005 20:34:49 -0700, "platopes" <platopes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> >Paul Stowe wrote:
> >> On 25 Sep 2005 17:27:39 -0700, "platopes" <platopes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Traveler wrote:
> >> >> On 25 Sep 2005 16:57:43 -0700, "platopes" <platopes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > So-called "opposites" are crap. You're an idiot. :)
> >> >>
> >> >> ahahaha... OK. That's it.
> >> >
> >> > Okay that's what? You're gonna get a job now? There's no "opposite"
> >> >of the absolute. Think about it...oh, sorry, I forgot.
> >> >
> >> >> *** you and the mule you've been sleeping
> >> >> with.
> >> >
> >> > Mule? That's no way to talk about your mother!
> >>
> >> Chuckle, now that's funny :)
> >>
> >> Louie flames at the drop of a hat. Ya'might call him mini torch...
> >>
> >> Paul Stowe
> >
> > Flames are okay. Traveler is pompous and cowardly.
> >
> > Check this crap out -
> >
> >"To tell you the truth, I've been so busy this past year with my other
> >activities that I had very little time to spend on physics. It's a
> >shame, really, because fundamental physics is very dear to me." -
> >Traveler
> >
> > Oh dear, Emily, that's a shame! What a pouf!
>
> ahahaha... You're either a closet pederast or a pedophile, Mitch.

WOWEEEeee!!

> I've
> met your kind before.
>
No doubt you've spent many hours at a stretch with such folks. Do you
set bear traps and step into them?

So now, jerk,

If everything came from nothing, it would have done so at a certain
*time*. There is no time in nothing, there is no change in nothing,
nothing can have no relationships, such as being the thing everything
came from. Give it up.

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No existence without change; dimension is change.

Change precludes "nothingness"; "nothingness" cannot change.

Change is Two Things - Now & Future; they are mutually definitive,
but not "opposite". They are One Thing.

One Thing is fundamental and homogeneous - change is continuous.

Now exists as certainty in Future.

Future exists as probability in Now.

Probability and certainty exist in the physical manifestation of
existence, (just like the EM field), in response to which the human
brain evolved the capacity for higher thought; life forms evolve toward
better exploitation of pre-existing physical environments.
Higher thought is an impossibly unlikely "shot in the dark" in terms
of evolution. It's not an extension of processing simple physical data;
we don't need "Waiting For Godot" in order to flourish in our current
physical environment. Not *apparently*. But what fool would posit that
our current state is the end of evolution?

An object may be thought of as a process - the process of thought
should be viewed as an object.

"Thought is the unifying force" should be taken literally. We do not
experience the full spectrum of Thought, just as we do not see the full
spectrum of light.

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My bull***'s better than yours.

p

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