Re: KIM 2.3 (was Re: Time)

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:19:17 -0800

Lewis Carroll Epstein says the reason we can't go faster than light is that we
can't go slower than light, c is our speed along the time axis.

Brent

Günther Greindl wrote:
> Abram,
>
> an intuition I have come to concerning time is the following (it is only
> qualitative and may or may not be helpful in thinking about time):
>
> From relativity theory we know that there is no universal now, and that
> the invariant between two "points" in the physical universe is spacetime
> distance, where time or space are interchangeable relative to different
> (moving) observers.
>
> Now let us for the moment go into the position of an observer
> (ourselves, for instance).
>
> space: is the dimensions over which I have control as a thinking
> subject. I can move left, right, up, down, front, back - three
> dimensions. I can consciously change my relation to other objects (which
> continue on their trajectories through spacetime).
>
> time: is the motion of all other objects in the universe in relation to
> myself - even some objects of which I am made of, say, the cells in my
> body (which divide etc), bloodstream etc.
>
> So we see a first person/third person divide:
>
> space as the self moving in relation to everything else,
> time as everything outside the self moving in relation to
> oneself.
>
> So, in this sense, time and space are indeed very much alike - they just
> represent different points of view (self vs otherness)
>
> Just a few thoughts :-)
>
> Best Wishes,
> Günther
>
> >
>


--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list.domain.name.hidden
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe.domain.name.hidden
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Received on Tue Jan 06 2009 - 16:19:20 PST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Feb 16 2018 - 13:20:15 PST