RE: Are we teleporting?
August 17, 2015 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2015 at 4:37 pm by Alex K.)
(August 17, 2015 at 1:53 pm)pool Wrote:(August 16, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Alex K Wrote: @pool
The only true answer: Currently, no one knows whether movement is continuous or discrete (whether it is discreet, well that's between you and your girlfriend). The problem is that the standard model of particle physics combined with general relativity breaks down near the planck scale, so we do not know what happens at shorter distances even in theory, let alone IRL. Current quantum theory treats movement as continuous and there is no evidence currently that this description is wrong. However, this could just be our ignorance of what goes on at shorter distances.
Movement is discreet,duh.
Continuity is only a concept,it's not practical.
What do you call the Set of numbers between 1 and 2?With the little cute decimal points?Yeah,that.
It's just a concept,it's not practically possible.What do you think happens in the set of natural numbers?Duh,teleportation.Discreet.
Teleporting from 1 to 2.From 2 to 3.From 3 to 4.From 4 to 5.Discreet.Duh.
It doesn't go from 1 to (insert all the numbers between 1 and 2) and then reach 2.
Think about it,if one had to travel from 1 to 2 in a continuous fashion one would have to go through all the infinite number of numbers between 1 and 2.Which means that it would take an infinite time period to get from 1 to 2.Duh.Which is not the case because i can move from my current position at time t to my future position at time t+1 in a finite period of time.
Tell you what,you do all the necessary math and we can share our Nobel prize.Sounds like a plan,right?
I mean,don't you get bored with doing the same problems again and again and again just in slightly different yet similar ways?Be a rebel - join the dark side,for all we know you just might win a Nobel prize.Why wouldn't Jesus just give me some mathematics :/ i thought he loved me...asshole.
*hides*
You start to sound like Salieri in Amadeus
But to move along an uncountably infinite number of points in finite time, one has to spend infinitely short amounts of time at each of them. That's what Newton and Leibniz' differential calculus is all about.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
