Pentcho Valev
2014-04-17 16:52:20 UTC
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-problem-of-now.html
Sabine Hossenfelder: "Most people get a general feeling of uneasiness when they first realize that the block universe implies all the past and all the future is equally real as the present moment, that even though we experience the present moment as special, it is only subjectively so. But if you can combat your uneasiness for long enough, you might come to see the beauty in eternal mathematical truths that transcend the passage of time. We always have been, and always will be, children of the universe."
The children of the universe know that the future already exists - they can jump, within a minute, sixty million years ahead and see what will happen then on Earth:
http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf
Thibault Damour: "The paradigm of the special relativistic upheaval of the usual concept of time is the twin paradox. Let us emphasize that this striking example of time dilation proves that time travel (towards the future) is possible. As a gedanken experiment (if we neglect practicalities such as the technology needed for reaching velocities comparable to the velocity of light, the cost of the fuel and the capacity of the traveller to sustain high accelerations), it shows that a sentient being can jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth. This is a clear way of realizing that the future "already exists" (as we can experience it "in a minute")."
Jumping in the future is possible because, on the planet on which the children of the universe live, Einstein's 1905 false constant-speed-of-light postulate is true. If Einstein's 1905 false constant-speed-of-light postulate were false, the children of the universe would jump again but just up and down, not in the future.
Pentcho Valev
Sabine Hossenfelder: "Most people get a general feeling of uneasiness when they first realize that the block universe implies all the past and all the future is equally real as the present moment, that even though we experience the present moment as special, it is only subjectively so. But if you can combat your uneasiness for long enough, you might come to see the beauty in eternal mathematical truths that transcend the passage of time. We always have been, and always will be, children of the universe."
The children of the universe know that the future already exists - they can jump, within a minute, sixty million years ahead and see what will happen then on Earth:
http://www.bourbaphy.fr/damourtemps.pdf
Thibault Damour: "The paradigm of the special relativistic upheaval of the usual concept of time is the twin paradox. Let us emphasize that this striking example of time dilation proves that time travel (towards the future) is possible. As a gedanken experiment (if we neglect practicalities such as the technology needed for reaching velocities comparable to the velocity of light, the cost of the fuel and the capacity of the traveller to sustain high accelerations), it shows that a sentient being can jump, "within a minute" (of his experienced time) arbitrarily far in the future, say sixty million years ahead, and see, and be part of, what (will) happen then on Earth. This is a clear way of realizing that the future "already exists" (as we can experience it "in a minute")."
Jumping in the future is possible because, on the planet on which the children of the universe live, Einstein's 1905 false constant-speed-of-light postulate is true. If Einstein's 1905 false constant-speed-of-light postulate were false, the children of the universe would jump again but just up and down, not in the future.
Pentcho Valev