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Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox
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RE: Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox
(August 12, 2016 at 3:56 pm)Alex K Wrote: 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?
A Gemma is forever.
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RE: Lee Smolin's "Time Reborn" and the Andromeda Paradox - by Gemini - August 12, 2016 at 7:13 pm

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