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Post by general313 on Oct 18, 2018 18:56:57 GMT
I wouldn't get too fixated on your axioms and use them to declare what is coherent or incoherent. The history of science shows that any of them are open to question. For example classical physicists (including Newton) thought of time as an independent attribute of reality (unaffected by space or motion) and space as something that obeyed Euclidean geometry. Einstein's theories of relativity showed that those views are untenable. It's obvious what time is, though. That makes the idea of backwards time travel incoherent. I don't think it's something we need to pretend might be coherent out of some sort of feigned modesty or whatever. It is not obvious. Einstein showed that time and space are interrelated, and that by altering one's frame of reference there is cross talk between space and time measurements. You are making the unfounded assumption that time is static, just as Newton did. There's no shame in that (for Newton), the view was consistent with all of the experimental data available to him at the time. Einstein wasn't being modest, nor feigning it, when he overthrew the classical assumptions of space and time. |
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