Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox

[The Grand Nudger]

Insisting otherwise is to leave the field of inquiry and ask the non-question "if magic exists, is it possible that magic exists?"

FTL experientialism, lol. I gotta get me some of that...and put it in an engine. We could call it the G-Drive.

[Arkilogue]

Hmmm. I'm sceptical about this entire discussion if it doesn't yield anything testable (and I don't see how it does) - it might just be a discussion of formalism. Does my "now" on Andromeda already exist or not? What does that even mean? What does it mean for the future to exist already, or not.... I can't help but think that the entire discussion might be about something that isn't clearly defined.

That does make more sense to me than the Andromeda paradox. It leaves me wondering how physics constrains our understanding of time though. Given relativity, would it be possible in principle for there to be an omnipresent being (like God) who is simultaneously experiencing events that are occurring in distant galaxies?

Given FTL "spooky action at a distance" and the universe spanning Higgs field that crystallized into place after universal expansion. I'd say the mechanism and the medium both exist for God's plausible omni-awareness of universe events.

[The Grand Nudger]

See what you've done Alex.

[Arkilogue]

See what you've done Alex.

If you open a can of worms...might as well go fishing with your friends and enjoy yourself

[The Grand Nudger]

Do you have some explanation for instantaneous pan-cosmic signal transmission, that you'd like to share?

[Arkilogue]

Do you have some explanation for instantaneous pan-cosmic signal transmission, that you'd like to share?

The medium of transmission would be the Higgs field.

http://interestingengineering.com/spooky...times-ftl/


Dr. Juan Yin and his research colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai have recently used an experiment which, to them, demonstrates that the lower limit — yes, the lower limit — to the speed associated with entanglement dynamics (which is what Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”) is at least 10,000 times faster than light.


Doesn'tt prove instantaneous transmission but it is faster than light...10,000 times faster at minimum.

[The Grand Nudger]

Do you have some explanation for instantaneous pan-cosmic signal transmission, that you'd like to share?

The medium of transmission would be the Higgs field.

http://interestingengineering.com/spooky...times-ftl/


Dr. Juan Yin and his research colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai have recently used an experiment which, to them, demonstrates that the lower limit — yes, the lower limit — to the speed associated with entanglement dynamics (which is what Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”) is at least 10,000 times faster than light.


Doesn'tt prove instantaneous transmission but it is faster than light...10,000 times faster at minimum.

You mean it doesn't prove the only thing that matters, in the context of a being capable of simultaneously experiencing two distinctly divergent regions of space separated by galactic distances, which seems to have been a question you understood?  Then why are we discussing it? May as well have responded "well, yogurt exists, so it's possible", eh?

[Angrboda]

Do you have some explanation for instantaneous pan-cosmic signal transmission, that you'd like to share?

The medium of transmission would be the Higgs field.

http://interestingengineering.com/spooky...times-ftl/


Dr. Juan Yin and his research colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai have recently used an experiment which, to them, demonstrates that the lower limit — yes, the lower limit — to the speed associated with entanglement dynamics (which is what Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance”) is at least 10,000 times faster than light.


Doesn'tt prove instantaneous transmission but it is faster than light...10,000 times faster at minimum.

It doesn't demonstrate transmission. Entanglement isn't transmission of information, which is what would be required if this is to function as the binding process of an omniscient entity. Asserting that the Higgs field is the bearer of information is an arbitrary assertion, and an example of a local hidden variable theory. Both are strikes against it.