RE: What would you call my new beliefs?
March 4, 2017 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2017 at 12:44 pm by Nonpareil.)
(March 4, 2017 at 8:12 am)SteveII Wrote: 1. LOL. You don't even understand your own position. Let's pull apart the word 'dimension' that you are so fond of:
Quote:In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it.[1][2] Thus a line has a dimension of one because only one coordinate is needed to specify a point on it – for example, the point at 5 on a number line.
You do realize that everything you just quoted agrees with me, yes? A line has one dimension - that is, it has one area in which two points can be differentiated from one another. Our universe has four. Time is the fourth, the dimension in which changes in the previous three occur in sequence.
(March 4, 2017 at 8:12 am)SteveII Wrote: To sum it up, a dimension is a mathematical expression of relationship... It does not exist separately from the things you are describing.
This does not follow, even from - again - the Wikipedia articles you are citing to try and prove it. And even if it did, it would not help your argument for causality without time.
(March 4, 2017 at 8:12 am)SteveII Wrote: If you only had one object in the universe, there would be no space.
Yes, there would. It would be empty, but you would still have space.
(March 4, 2017 at 8:12 am)SteveII Wrote: You have your work cut out for you if you think you can defend "causality requires time". Since time is a measurement of change, you are really saying, "causality requires a measurement of change". However, that does not make any sense. Wouldn't it be the case of the reverse: "A measurement of change requires causality?"
No.
Even granting your completely mangled definition of "time", this is gibberish.
Still wrong in literally every way possible.
"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