Re: Is Time Real?
by DragonFly on January 3rd, 2017, 2:41 pm
Both time and space are of discrete bits, ridding us of Zeno's Paradox.
There isn’t anything outside of Totality (or it wouldn’t be Totality), such as clocks, rulers, gods, or directions; thus, Totality is wholly relative and relational to its internals. that is, all its properties are described in terms of relationships between its events, such as causality, in the main, as the most important. An ‘event’ is defined as the smallest possible change, as a part of a process.
There cannot be an infinite number of relationships between events, as in a smooth, continuous space; thus, Totality is discrete. Events are discrete entities that can be enumerated, thus space and time themselves are not continuous. One cannot divide time indefinitely, for there are elementary events, as the simplest possible things that can happen, such as during the Planck time.
The Bekenstein bound shows that the amount of information that can be contained in any region is not only finite, it is proportional to the area of the boundary of the region, in Planck units, thus all must be discrete on the Planck scale, for were it continuous any region could contain an infinite amount of information.
If Totality really were continuous, then every volume of space would contain an infinite amount of information. In a continuous reality it takes an infinite amount of information to specify the position of even one electron, much less particles divided infinitely. This is because the position is given by a real number that requires an infinite number of digits to describe. Further, we would see variations in our supposed elementals as much as we do for the planets, but all our elementals are the same.
That something just ‘is’ there is not true, this being an illusion, for it is ever changing. Process is more important than, and comes before, any apparent equilibrium or seemingly static object.
Change is not optional. No particle can sit exactly still, for this would violate the uncertainty principle, for a particle has no precise position, nor could this never moving particle have a precise momentum (zero). We cannot know both position and momentum to some precision. Even if we could remove all the energy from a particle, there would remain some intrinsic zero point motion. Stillness is prohibited; change and process are a must.
So, there must be action, and thus Totality is composed of processes. Time, then, is the same as causality. A set of events caused the past and a set of events will cause the future.
There are not a collection of independent entities living in some fixed, static background of space and time, but instead, there is a connection of relationships the properties of every part of which are determined by its relationships to the other parts, which may be a whole lot of connections.
The universe is not made of material things of stuff in stasis, but of processes by which things happen. Even the elementary particles are not static objects just sitting around here and there, but are processes carrying little bits of information between events at which they interact, giving rise to new processes, in a way like the elementary operations in a computer do. Banish the image of an eternal atom as a completed thing.
All that one ever views is the inside of the brain. We only imagine we are seeing into an infinite three-dimensional space, but this is only an inside construct, for the brain paints a face upon reality. One does not reach out and probe objects, but rather, their photons come to you. Each object you see is from a process by which information travelled to you in the form of photons and the farther away the object is, the longer it takes the photons to get to you. So, you do not see space, but instead you are looking at history, as information from a process. Our Reality is always a bit behind the actual.
There isn’t anything static at all; it is something created and recreated by an unbelievable number of processes per second. A scene is the collective result of all the various processes. We cannot believe in any principle which expresses the world in terms of things. There isn’t anything but processes by which information is transported from one part of the universe to another.