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- From: rickert@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Warren Rickert)
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- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - BASS JEALOUS AND INSECURE-ABIAN VALIDATED
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 02:51:54 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In <Bz81F4.Lqt@quake.sylmar.ca.us> brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder) writes:
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- >I think that before anyone even addresses this incredible claim (that "Time
- >Has Inertia") they have to explain how something which is not an entity (time)
- >can have properties. Any definition of time I can think of (even ones I
- >very much disagree with) define time as something other than an entity.
- >If you claim that your definition of time is something new, that it IS an
- >entity, then you need to have some means by which to prove this. What do you
- >think would constitute evidence of this amazing claim?
-
- >A similar problem exists for physicists who consider light to be a wave (or
- >a wave and something else too). Waving is something an entity does, not a
- >thing in itself. There can no more be a wave traveling through space than
- >there can be a room with some "jumping" going on outside of any entities which
- >are doing the jumping.
-
- >I think these kinds of problems both arise from physicists getting too tied up
- >with their equations to remember that they apply to things in the real world.
-
- The ability of light to behave as a wave, and as a particle, have
- both been able to lead to concrete predictions about real world experiments,
- and provided correct results.
- THe ability to predict experimental behaviour correctly is the real
- test of a theory, not whether or not it can be visualized.
-