Noncommutability of observables

From: Stephen Paul King <stephenk1.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:32:02 -0400

Dear Russel,

    Any ideas on the 3rd person aspect? Are you assuming that that
commutability or non-commutativity of observables is fixed a priori?

Kindest regards,

Stephen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Standish" <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
To: "Stephen Paul King" <stephenk1.domain.name.hidden>
Cc: <everything-list.domain.name.hidden>; "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin.domain.name.hidden.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: The Time Deniers and the idea of time as a "dimension"

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:01:29PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote:
> Esteemed Prof. Standish,

> snip
> More seriously though, given that the experience of time is a 1st
> person thing, the ordering of observables is chosen, so there is a
> definite ordering to experienced time. My TIME postulate assumes this
> ordering, for example.
>
> Noncommutability of observables surely can only effect the possibility
> of ordering of 3rd person events, which I suspect nobody here has
> given much thought to (least of all, me).
Received on Fri Jul 15 2005 - 07:35:57 PDT