[PD] tabread4~~

Patrice Colet pat at mamalala.org
Sat Nov 17 00:30:50 CET 2007


Patrice Colet a écrit :
> Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ypatios Grigoriadis wrote:
>>
>>> If i may now borrow the theory and terminus Arrow of time by Arthur 
>>> Eddington, according to which time is the fourth dimension in space,
>>
>> Afaik, Arthur Eddington made the first English translation of 
>> Einstein. This is probably what got him in that 4th dimension thing, 
>> or perhaps it was the other way around (that he had thought of a 4th 
>> dimension concept and sought in Einstein's work a confirmation of it). 
>> I don't really know.
>>
>> Anyway: in some way, the past is equally hard to "postdict" as the 
>> future is hard to predict, but it depends on what one looks for. We 
>> are used to think of the past using what remains from it, but almost 
>> every event of the past is virtually unreachable due to having been 
>> blurred beyond repair. For any set of things you observe, everything 
>> else is left unobserved. The attention span of observers is tiny 
>> compared to what could become relevant to the observers later.
> 
> I'm very happy to read anything else than space-time gibbering, thanks.
gibbering = drivel, sorry for bad translation.





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