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eqfan592

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9. Do I think time is a fantasy? No.

Reply to RobertEarl (Reply #7)

Sun May 13, 2012, 12:39 PM

May 2012

And you can see Longships post for a good breakdown on why. But can I also completely explain it? No.

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Organic realism [View all] tama May 2012 OP

Hmm, sounds like co-opting scientific terms to promote philosophical kookery longship May 2012 #1

Philosophy and science tama May 2012 #12

But the test of science is whether it agrees with the data longship May 2012 #14

QFT tama May 2012 #19

More on QFT tama May 2012 #20

Bohm's deterministic quantum theory is not relativistic longship May 2012 #23

Corrections tama May 2012 #29

Yes, that is my understanding, too. longship May 2012 #31

The intersection of process relgious thought, science and philosophy Thats my opinion May 2012 #27

Good to hear tama May 2012 #32

What is this about time? RobertEarl May 2012 #2

Einstein might have had something about that longship May 2012 #3

Time is woven in the fabric? RobertEarl May 2012 #4

Perhaps you would be better served studying the works of those... eqfan592 May 2012 #5

Perhaps RobertEarl May 2012 #7

Do I think time is a fantasy? No. eqfan592 May 2012 #9

Time is what we make of it RobertEarl May 2012 #10

Well, time is something! longship May 2012 #6

well RobertEarl May 2012 #8

Time is decidedly not a human construction longship May 2012 #11

Cause and effect exists RobertEarl May 2012 #13

Well, we seem to be agreeing, mostly... longship May 2012 #15

The subject is a tough subject RobertEarl May 2012 #16

Well, what do we actually know about time? longship May 2012 #17

Thank you, longship RobertEarl May 2012 #18

Well tama May 2012 #21

Quantum physics is also relativistic longship May 2012 #22

Yup tama May 2012 #28

Indeed, plus the relative scale of gravity longship May 2012 #30

Weak and distant... :) tama May 2012 #35

Or, "Open a subspace frequency to StarFleet Lt. Uhura" longship May 2012 #36

If only tama May 2012 #38

You seem to be re-defining time to suit a rather murky proposition. LTX May 2012 #26

In terms of psychological time tama May 2012 #33

Effectively, there is no "now." LTX May 2012 #39

Notice tama May 2012 #40

Certainly time matters to a dog Silent3 May 2012 #24

At least one physicist questions the reality of time. Jim__ May 2012 #41

As long as it's free-range organic realism Silent3 May 2012 #25

Thanks, I needed that. rrneck May 2012 #37

How it is possible that the world is both deterministic and deterministic at the same time? AlbertCat May 2012 #34

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