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(2 posts)With respect, I think Professor Krauss make a number of (very common), unchecked assumptions and conclusions from the outset here. From which all talk of time is doomed to end in the usual discussion of paradoxes and conjecture.
At the start he says
time is an amazing thing, it is a perplexing quantity
the future is definitely different to the past
The problem here is that in this sentence ie he ( and many others ) main foundation for assuming a thing called time exists, he sites two things, or places
The future, and
The past
These can only be legitimately used in the conversation if some scientific proof of their existence, other than as ideas, conjecture, or worse still beliefs or feelings, can be given.
Fundamentally IMO the key error here may be that the professor has not considered (let alone considered and dismissed) a critical key question, which is this...
IF the universe is just full of matter just constantly moving changing and interacting...
Not heading into a future, and Not leaving a past behind it
Would this be enough to mislead us into thinking a past and future may exist?
Having written a book on the subject (please excuse the plug in my first post)
A Brief History of Timelessness http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I09XHMQ
I think the answer to this question may in fact be YES ie where professor Krauss says
the future is definitely different to the past
What he is really actually scientifically provably, in fact saying is
ideas I can create in my head (now) are different to fixed patterns that exist in my head (now).
Just calling ideas you can create in you rmind proof of a future or calling fixed patterns of matter in-formation in your mind proof that extra to these there really is a temporal past is extremely unscientific.
Ie while we may get the idea there is a past and a future, this is fine, but cannot be built on unless an experiment following the scientific method is present to PROVE the idea has foundation . ( many people firmly believe the IDEA horoscopes make sense , but logically, with out proof any idea is unfounded, no matter how many other people like it , or how educated they are).
Finally, with respect, I dont think Einstein did show that a quantity called time exists and can be dilated. I on the electrodynamics of moving bodies it shows how the motion of an oscillator ( a watch) can be compared to the motion of a train. And how the motion of oscillators is dilated with acceleration and velocity ( as professor Krauss explains re GPS etc)
but Unless someone can post a link here that says otherwise, imo, nowhere does Relativity actually prove there IS a past, or future or thing called time that flows between them and can be dilated dilating the rate a thing is changing now is in no way the same as showing that something is sinking into a past or surging into a future.
Excuse the plugs again, but heres a couple of videos I made exploring the possibility of timelessness, for anyone seriously interested.
Time Travel,Timeless Answers to Prof Brian Cox's Science of Dr WHO
and in more detail
Does Time exist? How 'Time travel Paradoxes' can't happen without "the past".
again scus the plugs (and any typos)
yours Matthew Marsden
London
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(9,593 posts)Welcome to DU. Hope to hear more from you.
MattMars
(2 posts)Thanks very much ne1 I like the look of DU,
I'm very focused on exploring the possibility of 'timelessness', which of course I know might be right or wrong (when people insist they are right I think the mind becomes closed
In a brief history of timelessness I analysed every angle and problem related to 'time' that I could find, and the approach seems to address and resolve every issue, including special and general relativity etc.
Of course I may be too close to my own work to see any critical errors, but that's why I put it out there , peer review and all that.
Please feel free to check out www.timelessness.co.uk for any info, and videos of the various talks it's got a lot of pages, but it's searchable)
And please drop me a line on DU if you have any questions.
Atb Matt Marsden