(March 3, 2017 at 9:15 pm)SteveII Wrote: Fine. You have 2 problems that I can see:
1. You are incapable of having a discussion.
2. Your grasp on reality is about an inch deep.
Not precisely. I am unwilling to engage in more than is necessary with something like this. When someone outright rejects the existence of spacetime, despite their own sources contradicting them and the idea of existence without dimensions being utterly nonsensical, there really isn't anywhere else to go, and certainly not much inclination on my part to do much beyond pointing out that, yes, you are quite totally wrong.
Space exists. This is demonstrable; it is the thing that separates two objects.
Time exists. This is demonstrable; it is the thing that lets one event happen after another.
Space and time are dimensions. This is a matter of definition; they are continuums in which two points can be separated from one another.
Causality requires time. This is also a matter of definition; a cause must precede its effect, or it is, by definition, not a cause.
Causality does not create time any more than motion creates space. The idea is utterly nonsensical.
These are all brute facts. You cannot get around them. All you can do is stick your fingers in your ears and say that the people refusing to let you get away with complete nonsense are big meanie-heads who can't hold a conversation because they won't let you play silly buggers.
"Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it."
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
- A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner