RE: The Time Deniers and the idea of time as a "dimension"

From: Jesse Mazer <lasermazer.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:10:45 -0400

chris peck wrote:

>
>Thats why I make an appeal to something more intuitive. The A List as
>concieved by McTaggart may lead to incoherence, but nevertheless, we are
>embedded in the present. To meddle with its order is to conjure up paradox.
>Reality can not be like that.

But are you just expressing a personal intuition there, or do you think some
actual logical paradox arises from the block time concept? Also, do you
agree that to define a notion of a single universal present, we must
privelege one relativistic reference frame over all others? If so, do you
think this reference frame is only "metaphysically" preferred while agreeing
with relativity's claim that no reference frame can be picked out as special
by any actual physical experiment, or do you hope for a new theory of
physics which actually picks out a physically preferred reference frame?

Jesse
Received on Tue Jul 19 2005 - 19:14:41 PDT