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- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Einstein on future causes.
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:59:38 GMT
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- Yes, I stand corrected- Einstein did believe in future cause in a certain
- sense - though not in spacelike action (he began to change in mind before he
- died). His position was not quite consistent perhaps since spacelike action
- implies future cause.
- From: rsf1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Robert S. Fritzius)
- Subject: Future causes NOT
- Keywords: advanced potentials, Ritz, Einstein
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- Organization: Mississippi State University
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:18:52 GMT
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- Reference <BzyExK.KxF@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
-
- In paragraph 5 of Jack Sarfatti's Feynman 42 QED... post, there is the
- statement:
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- >Forbidding future causes really violates special relativity -
- >though Einstin of course forbade future cause...
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- It appears that Jack got this a bit out of kilter.
-
- There's an article in Physics Essays (vol 3, No. 4, 1990) titled "The
- Ritz-Einstein Agreement to Disagree" which is about a battle dealing with
- Einstein's steadfast defense of future cause (advanced potentials) in the
- face of Ritz's onslaught for a new kind of electrodynamics and
- thermodynamics in which only retarded effects (past cause) exist.
-