ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[David Casseres]

Yeah, but Goedel was talking of abstract universes, models in which time, as
a 4th geometric dimension did not figure from any PoV.  This led him to a
proof that in any "real" universe, time-as-we-experience-it cannot
correspond to any physical reality.

To me, that's the interesting bit: time is a Platonic ideal.  And any
physicist, if you pin him down, will tell you he doesn't understand time at
all.

On 4/4/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>  David C:
> > Kurt Goedel, late in his life, wrote a chapter of a book dedicated to
> Einstein
> > on his 70th birthday, in which he demonstrated the possibility of
> universes that
> > conform to Einstein's relativity but in which physical time doesn't
> exist.
>
> See my post to Ya Sam a few minutes ago: from the photon's PoV, no less
> privileged than ours, *this* universe is one of 'em.
>
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