Is Time Just an Idea?

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Steve3007 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:16 am
By the way, in what country do these people come from that use the phrase "scare-quotes"?
Type the term "scare quotes" into Google.
Do you think or believe that that search engine will tell me what country do these people come from that use the phrase "scare-quotes"?

Do you also think or believe that that search engine will answer the other questions I asked in relation to this matter?

The whole point I was making was obviously lost. I ask those questions because if they cannot be answered by human beings, then there is NO actual absolute standard definition nor meaning for them. Just like the same is with words, themselves.

Just because the phrase "scare-quotes" is used by some people in some countries, the use of double or single 'quotation marks' does NOT necessarily mean anything scary at all. They can be used for quoting, for emphasizing, for sarcasm, for ironic, for mocking, or for just some other special reason or meaning.
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Steve3007 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:54 am
RJG wrote:And unfortunately, it appears to me, that there is way too much "clinging to Science" in these "Philosophy" forum discussions, while "closing eyes to Simple Logic (and Math)".

This is a "philosophy" forum, not a "science" forum. If you want to "preach science", go to a science forum. If you want to "preach religion", go to a religion forum.
In your view:

Where do you go if you want to make assertions, which turn out to be false, as to what "science" says in order to claim that it defies logic?
What should others do if they see somebody apparently "clinging" to those false assertions?
If the person making those assertions refuses to back them with evidence when challenged, but just repeats them, underlined, would you describe that as "preaching" the false assertions?

Reference.
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I wish people would people would challenge me.

For example, I say if I sit in a rocket traveling from earth to a planet 4 light years away and I could travel at the speed of light from take off to touch down, then it would take me 4 years to travel that distance. My clock would say it took 4 years and I would have aged at the normal rate I would have on earth.

I can back up and support my claim here with evidence, proof, and facts.

So, If anyone wants to challenge me on this, then go right ahead.

But telling me "current knowledge" says I am WRONG is just not challenging at all. This is because "current knowledge" is just about always proven wrong and corrected.
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Terrapin Station wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:55 am
creation wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:34 am

I think you might find that the answer is a little bit different to this.
Nothing like saying something like that and then being coy about it.
But I was being coy from the beginning. Otherwise I would have just given my answer from then.

I am just testing to see what it actually takes, and works, to awaken the curiosity that was within ALL of you as children, and which will evoke someone to start really questioning me from a Truly OPEN perspective.

Nothing so far has worked.
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creation wrote:I wish people would people would challenge me
Creation, from the outset I was happy to discuss these things with you and, as far as I recall, I have never simply told you: "you are wrong". Don't conflate the words of all other posters with each other and simply refer to what "you and others" have said. Like some other people here (but not all) I initially tried to engage you in constructive conversation. Like some others, I had to give up, several times.

If you want the wish that you expressed above to come true then I think you have to look back at your posts. Reflect. Ask yourself why so many people seem to back away from you. If you simply conclude that the rest of the world is unreasonable, can't handle the truth, has been corrupted by education, or whatever, then I don't think you will have learned anything about yourself or them.

By the way, of all your recent posts, I think your reply here:

viewtopic.php?p=345949#p345949

was the most constructive and the least confrontational. But when, in all probability, I am just going to be faced with a wall of berating (and, despite your claim, it is berating), with various speculations about my personal character, I am put off answering your more reasonable posts.
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Thomyum2 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:55 am
RJG wrote: January 14th, 2020, 5:01 pm

Firstly, this is NOT the "same" logic. If you wish to use the "same" logic, then you gotta re-write your syllogism to match the terms accordingly:
  • "3D Object" = "Egg"
    "Motion" = "Laid/laying"
    "4th Dimension" = "Chicken"
    "Time" = "Hen"
Secondly, and even if you make the structural corrections, your Premise 1 is still false (e.g. turtles can lay eggs too), which invalidates your argument (making it unsound).
We could replace 'egg' with 'chicken egg' to correct that premise, but my point certainly wasn't to try to prove something here but to illustrate my take on the arguments. Maybe it was a lame attempt at humor. But notions such as time, space, motion, change, dimensions, etc. are all intertwined - they aren't parts of an object that you can take apart and put back together, so I don't think it's very meaningful to talk about 'Time' this way - it's not like gas that you put in a car to enable it to move, or an ingredient you add to make a cake, so it just seems a little odd to put truth values on these conclusions, and in this way it reminded me of the question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.

In any case, taking a step back - I think it is interesting in these discussions to see the different ways we all have of conceptualizing time and space, yet which are both such fundamental and universal concepts that we normally don't have any trouble with in our daily lives - so why such disagreement when we try to describe them abstractly?
Because of the ability we have to learn, and because of the way we actually learn.

The way the Mind and the brain work is why there is so much disagreement in the world, and why the way I say what will create peace on will work.
Thomyum2 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:55 am We can communicate information about time and space back and forth so easily and with so little confusion - I can make statements such as 'he was born in 1960'; 'I will pick you up at 7 AM'; 'it takes a half hour to get to the airport' or 'the plane leaves New York at noon for a six-hour flight and arrives in Los Angeles at 3 PM local time', etc. And while any of these might be empirically true or false, there likely would be no confusion about what any of these mean.

So then then why an argument about what Time 'is' if it's something we use so effortlessly?
Because of things like:

What 'time' ACTUALLY IS.
The way we learn.
The way the Mind and the brain work.
The way we give meaning and/or definitions to the words we use.
The way we assume and believe things are true.
The way the belief-system works.
And there would be sure to be some other reasons as well.
Thomyum2 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:55 am My sense is that we have different underlying assumptions and unspoken understandings about the nature of our fundamental existence which have implications for how we explain our inner experiences. I think that perhaps when we try to explain the concepts abstractly without first laying out the foundations we place underneath them, we're talking past each other because we're not speaking from a shared point of understanding.
Very true.

And, we just generally and mostly speak as though what we are saying is true, and what you are saying WRONG, without ever fully listening nor even trying to understand what the other is saying and meaning.
Thomyum2 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:55 am For example, it seems to me after following various posts here (and any of you please correct me if I'm mistaken or word this poorly), that, for some, C1 is true and C2 is false because they're approaching time and space as the foundation, the 'pre-existing' or fundamental reality, within which events such as motion take place, which we then observe. But for others, C2 is true and C1 is false because that fundamental component is the observation we make (e.g. of an object in motion), and the ideas of time and space are 'subsequently' created by the mind to describe that observation once it has been made. So again, this seems to me to be a 'chicken and egg' difference because I don't think the two can ever be separated. But our different angles in looking at the universe and our experience in it can be manifested as thinking one way or the other. Does this make sense to anyone?
In a sense, Yes.

To me, unintentionally looking at things in another way, i was able to SEE things from a completely different perspective, which was far removed from how I used to look at and see things, which was just more or less like every other human being does. This different way gave me a clear perspective of all things, which sounds totally unbelievable, but I am only expressing my truthful view of things here.

For example, I was able to "solve" the 'chicken and egg' scenario almost instantly, just from accidentally being able to look at and see things differently.
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Steve3007 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 11:45 am
creation wrote:I wish people would people would challenge me
Creation, from the outset I was happy to discuss these things with you and, as far as I recall, I have never simply told you: "you are wrong". Don't conflate the words of all other posters with each other and simply refer to what "you and others" have said. Like some other people here (but not all) I initially tried to engage you in constructive conversation. Like some others, I had to give up, several times.

If you want the wish that you expressed above to come true then I think you have to look back at your posts. Reflect. Ask yourself why so many people seem to back away from you. If you simply conclude that the rest of the world is unreasonable, can't handle the truth, has been corrupted by education, or whatever, then I don't think you will have learned anything about yourself or them.

By the way, of all your recent posts, I think your reply here:

viewtopic.php?p=345949#p345949

was the most constructive and the least confrontational.
This is BECAUSE most of it agreed with what you wrote anyway.
Steve3007 wrote: January 15th, 2020, 11:45 amBut when, in all probability, I am just going to be faced with a wall of berating (and, despite your claim, it is berating), with various speculations about my personal character, I am put off answering your more reasonable posts.
Like I have said before, you have never really wanted to converse about any actual point I am making, but just a continual do not oppose nor attack my "religion" of 'science' attitude.

Of course from the outset you were happy to discuss things with me, that was until you saw that I was saying things, which would (and could from your perspective) lead to the showing of the wrong interpretations, and thus the false findings, in the theories that you appear to worship highly.
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creation wrote:Like I have said before, you have never really wanted to converse about any actual point I am making...
I have already drafted a reply to your rocket trip thought experiment. I was waiting to see if you took on board what I said about reflecting on your own posts. Let me know if you ever do and want to discuss it.
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creation wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:28 am What happens if I "launch" a photon out into space in the exact same direction of the journey?
Not much different, but it is easier to understand it this way.
Except for the rumbling of the rocket, and when I look out the window.
Perhaps, but that is irrelevant in this context.
How is the photon traveling in my reference frame, when I am travelling at 80% the speed of the photon, and we are also going in different directions?

And, what has launching the photon on the ground have some bearing on it would travel in the same way? The same way to what exactly?

Where was the photon launched if it is not on the ground the first time?
The photon is launched on the ground level when the rocket is already moving, and it is launched in the reference frame of the moving rocket, ie. inside the moving rocket.
Also, when you say " 'from' the photon to travel ..." do you mean " 'for' the photon to travel ..."?
Yes, you can take that as a sort of "finnism", an error due to my native language.
a) What is the time my trip takes?
3 years according to your clock, 5 years according to your twin brother's clock.
b) How is that time my trip takes, in accordance to my clocks in the rocket?
3 years.
c) And how much older am I when I arrive on the planet?
3 years.
Are you saying I travel 3 years when I arrive at the planet and I am 3 years older? Or, what?
Exactly.
Why 'MUST' my brother take into account that the rocket has arrived at the planet?

If I was my brother on earth and I measure the trip then the rocket would be 80% of 3 light years away with 2 more years to travel. But I am not on the earth because you said I am in the rocket, and from my calculations I am 80% of 3 light years away from earth, with 2 more years to go to my destination. If and when I put myself in my brother's perspective (or reference frame, or reference point) on earth also, I still observe that the rocket is 80% of 3 light years away from earth, with 2 more years to destination.

When I reach destination, and if I and my brother have powerful enough telescopes, then I and my brother could also verify how long the trip actually took.

That is when I land and look back at earth it would look like I only just left a few seconds ago, and to my brother he would have to wait another 5 more years (or 10 years from when I left) to see me land on the planet. But as I say, I do observe and see things differently than most people do.

What I really cannot understand here is HOW could I, in the rocket, have traveled further than light could have in the exact same time? But this will all depend on how long you say my trip took.

When this is explained to me logically and reasonably, then I will start seeing and understanding, hopefully, what it is that you and others observe and see here.
Unfortunately I am not very good at explaining things clearly so that everybody understands. On the other hand, these things are somewhat counterintuitive and you are not the only one who finds it difficult to get a clear insight into them. I am not sure if this forum is the right place to learn the basics of SR or GR.
If the only "logically possible conclusion", to you, is if he trip has taken a much 'longer' time measured with a clock in the reference from of the earth, in this case 5 years, then is the '5 years' the longer time, or the measured with a clock in earth's frame of reference time?

If the 5 years is the longer time, then what is the earth's measured time? Or, if the earth's measured time is the 5 years, then what is the longer time?
I am not sure what you mean. The trip takes 5 years measured in the reference frame of the Earth and 3 years measured in the reference frame of the rocket.
What does my clock read?
3 years.
But how many of these so and so many seconds are there in one of those 'years' that you are referring to here?
3,154e+7. I just looked it up.
But if I was to provide a examples or a thought experiment not to much different to the above, then would anyone like to question, (and/or challenge), me on what I write, like I have just here?
It remains to be seen.
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RJG wrote:It appears to me, that there is way too much "clinging to Science" in these "Philosophy" forum discussions, while "closing eyes to Simple Logic.
Steve3007 wrote:What should others do if they see somebody apparently "clinging" to those false assertions?
If they cling to their Science or Religion when presented with a Logical contradiction, then I don't think we can do anything about it. They apparently are not interested in objective truths.

Steve3007 wrote:If the person making those assertions refuses to back them with evidence when challenged, but just repeats them, underlined, would you describe that as "preaching" the false assertions?
Yes. This includes those that respond (when challenged) by saying "we must respect Science", or respond with snide condescending remarks, while closing their eyes to the logic that contradicts their Science/Religion.

An example: Some here claim that "without motion there can be no time". I presented logical proof that this is "backwards", and further stated that if this is a truth of Science, then Science is WRONG. But instead of admitting this truth, those that "cling to their science" attack/besmirch me, instead of attacking the logic that proves Science's error.

Again, we can't get to the truth of matters if we can't let go of the "clinging" (i.e. the automatic defending of indoctrinated beliefs).
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creation wrote: January 15th, 2020, 11:33 am
Terrapin Station wrote: January 15th, 2020, 10:55 am

Nothing like saying something like that and then being coy about it.
But I was being coy from the beginning. Otherwise I would have just given my answer from then.

I am just testing to see what it actually takes, and works, to awaken the curiosity that was within ALL of you as children, and which will evoke someone to start really questioning me from a Truly OPEN perspective.

Nothing so far has worked.
How about just being friendly and not being judgmental where you're positioning others as inferior to your standards?
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RJG wrote:Yes. This includes those that respond (when challenged) by saying "we must respect Science"
If you think this has been said, please quote a specific poster saying it. If you think "Science" has said it, quote "Science" saying it.
or respond with snide condescending remarks,
Please refrain from ad hominem remarks, such as accusing other posters of being "snide" or "condescending". If you think that I or anyone has said something that is factually incorrect or contains logically invalid reasoning, quote it.
while closing their eyes to the logic that contradicts their Science/Religion.
Please back this up with specifics to give other posters a chance to attempt to refute it.
An example: Some here claim that "without motion there can be no time".
Does the thing that you have referred to as "Science" say this? If so, quote please. If not, it is irrelevant as part of your reply.
I presented logical proof that this is "backwards", and further stated that if this is a truth of Science, then Science is WRONG.
If you assert that "Science" says this, quote it.
But instead of admitting this truth, those that "cling to their science" attack/besmirch me, instead of attacking the logic that proves Science's error.
Be specific about the poster to whom you are referring and the post in which you claim that they "attack/besmirch" you.
gain, we can't get to the truth of matters if we can't let go of the "clinging" (i.e. the automatic defending of indoctrinated beliefs).
If you claim that somebody engages in this "clinging", state who and quote from the relevant post(s).
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Steve, you misinterpret my point. My point was NOT to "call out anyone" about their flawed reasoning ability. (They already know who they are). My point was to "agree with you" and add extra clarification.

If you look closely at what I said, then you will see that I was basically agreeing with your post.
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RJG wrote:(They already know who they are)
As a general rule, if you think that any given person has flawed reasoning ability, then I think it is unlikely that they know who they are. I think that relatively few people know that their reasoning is faulty but still persist with it. I think most people make arguments because they genuinely believe those arguments to be valid, and this is true regardless of whether those arguments really are valid.

The above is not a comment on any particular person. It is a comment on human nature.
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RJG wrote:If you look closely at what I said, then you will see that I was basically agreeing with your post.
I assume you're referring to your most recent post. I had another look at it. No, I can't say I see that. The people, the words and the arguments to whom the post refers aren't sufficiently well defined to be able to tell, with any confidence, what you mean by it. At least not to me.
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You can assume all you like.
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