(2023-12-21, 10:55 AM)David001 Wrote: Thanks for that sci! I am still watching the first video, and I definitely like Michael Heumer and his philosophy.
He has the guts (as an academic philosopher) to say that space and time are qualitatively different and that therefore even SR is somehow false - possibly because SR asserts there is no preferred frame of reference! He also supports Dualism.
His views about SR may relate to the fact that there are other theories of SR and GR that give similar/identical results, but don't have the same philosophical implications.
A big problem with science (as I see it) is that when someone invents a new theory T for some phenomenon, scientists are given a period of a few years in which to shoot the theory down or replace it, but at some point it becomes horrendously hard to displace T because the referees of any potential alternative have already used T for their own work!
It is as though science were organised a little like the fashion industry. If someone invents a new fashion nobody is supposed to copy it or even produce a similar product because all the rights (and $$$) should go to the original designer.
David
I'm wary of saying too much about SR/GR as while I have studied physics I am MANY years removed from those days.
I do agree that Time and Space are fundamentally different and to simply accept that Time is a Spatial 4D axial direction is [an unwarranted] leap. The physicist Adam Frank has actually commented on this as well:
Quote:In Bergson's philosophy, there was something greater to time than just measurements. Time was so central to human experience that fully unpacking it meant going beyond mere accounts of clocks or of even "psychological" perceptions. Instead, time was intimately connected to the bedrock of what it means to experience the world. It was, in some sense, the essence of human being and hence of being itself. For Bergson, that meant purely scientific accounts could not exhaust time's meaning or importance.
Note Frank has Co-Authored the forthcoming The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
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- Bertrand Russell