The dilemma doesn't exist if time doesn't exist. There's no
contradiction with not being able to go backwards if you there's no such
thing as forward either. See? You just simplify those pesky equations
by removing time altogether.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/6/2012 8:15 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Reminds me of a YouTube video I stumbled across a while back. It was
> a lecture by a noted (that means I'd heard of him) physicist about
> why time's arrow points forward. After all, according to the lecture,
> most of the laws of physics work either way, with time going forward
> or time going backwards. But it doesn't go backwards. Why not? is the
> question. I confess I thought at the time I had a glimmer of
> understanding, but as I write this I realize whatever light I once
> had now is extinguished. And no, it wasn't something so simple as
> entropy. That's a symptom, not the disease.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Apr 5, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> Mr. Barbour has been working for years and years to resolve the
>> discrepancies between the relativistic physics of the macro world
>> and the very stranger physics of the quantum world. You see, there
>> is no problem except for the pesky notion of time. Solution: Time
>> does not exist.
>
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