(January 19, 2015 at 12:16 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Rather I find no sensible alternative to logical necessity which as far as I can tell, so long as A must precede B, and B must follow A, and B must precede C, and C must follow B, etc.---granted there is any motion, the present state follows necessarily from the preceding one.Yes, and given the present state, none of those preceding it could have been different than they have been. In fact, we have not calculated that we've arisen out of the Big Bang-- rather, we have looked back through time in reverse, and inferred it. We have a back-directional view of the Big Bang. So this stuff about this being how we experience time really doesn't hold for events previous to our personal experiences.
This is (again) like the wave question: are the particles arranged roughly around a perfect (but not physically existent) "wave-ness," or is a wave just a name for how the particles happen to be arranged? So for time: is the current state an expression of the initial state multiplied by factors representing universal laws? Or are the initial state and laws determined by a necessary (and inevitable) end state?
Tell me, does lightning strike upward, or downward?
