(February 11, 2018 at 5:38 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(February 11, 2018 at 5:03 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Ok, I'm curious now. I thought you were referring to that because it fits what you were describing. Einsteinian Relativity implies the B-theory of time. I'm not that sophisticated when it comes to physics.
(my bold)
Does it?
I wonder how that works...
So I don't do this injustice, I'll refer you to this Wiki link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-theory_of_time
Quote:B-theory in theoretical physics
The B-theory of time has received support from the physics community.[17][18] This is likely due to its compatibility with physics and the fact that many theories such as special relativity, the ADD model, and brane cosmology, point to a theory of time similar to B-theory.
In special relativity, the relativity of simultaneity shows that there's no unique present, and that each point in the universe can have a different set of events that are in its present moment.
Many of special relativity's now-proven counter-intuitive predictions, such as length contraction and time dilation, are a result of this. Relativity of simultaneity is often taken to imply eternalism (and hence a B-theory of time), where the present for different observers is a time slice of the four dimensional universe. This is demonstrated in the Rietdijk–Putnam argument and additionally in an advanced form of this argument called the Andromeda paradox, created by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose.[19]
It is therefore common (though not universal), for B-theorists to be four-dimensionalists, that is, to believe that objects are extended in time as well as in space and therefore have temporal as well as spatial parts. This is sometimes called a time-slice ontology.[20]
