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if we weren't experiencing it a frame at a time?
does light speed travel simulate 4dimensionality?
ouch.
does light speed travel simulate 4dimensionality?
ouch.
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Re: what does a 4-d world sound like....
Thu, October 9, 2003 - 1:33 PMit could be that "we" don't actually experience the world a frame at a time; what if we, along with the rest of everything, wink out of existance every moment, and are spontaneously reformed in the next instant? What if, when an object falls, it doesn't--it is erased completely from being, and then reestablished a moment later in a slightly different position? What if even memories are constantly obliterated--and replaced in the next instant by new, slightly changed ones? -
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Zeno's Paradox
Fri, December 5, 2003 - 12:35 AMWhat I like about this theory is that it solves the mystery of Zeno's paradox, which states that in order to get anywhere, you have to get halfway there first. And halfway to halfway, and so on. By that logic, you can never actually get anywhere. Obviously, we do. The concept that nothing actually ever "moves," but simply re-incarnates at distinct points in space and time, neatly solves this problem, I think. -
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Re: Zeno's Paradox
Sun, December 7, 2003 - 12:37 AMThis whole "mystery" of 'Zeno's Paradox' seems to be extremely misunderstood, perpetuated by using words like "paradox" and "mystery" which, as far as I know, it is neither.
Zeno's Paradox is nothing more than a semantic trick, a demonstration of a mathematical 'flaw' of sorts. Sure, before you can get somewhere, you have to get half way there, and half way there before you can get halfway to the other halfway, etc. If you really want to place meaning on this, all this means is that by Our Definitions, movement is impossible in one dimension. But we already knew that. That's where this whole "time as a dimension" (the fourth one, in our case) comes into play. It's the 'dimension' that defines movement. Back to the mathematical part, if you keep adding 1.01, 1.011, 1.0111, 1.01111, 1.011111, etc, when do you ever get to 2?
Ever heard of Analog, or seen a line on a graph? Lines on a graph represent an infinite amount of points between two points. Why do we have an infinite amount of points between two other points? Well, because that's how we define a 'point'. An infinite amount of them can fit between any two others.
So you see, it's simply our Language that introduces the "paradox", not the universe itself. Any effort to force the universe to fit into our human-defined, 'digital' mathematical language would seem, to me, a step in the wrong direction.
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