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TopicQuestion for the Atheists on the board.
ToukaOone
04/14/12 11:23:00 PM
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Yeah. Time and space are more or less the same thing in a lot of theories actually. The term spacetime will come up anytime you discuss relativity as well.

No it's NOT arghasdfpoi7asdgjp0a78sdf.

Or rather.

Yes you can consider as another dimension, but that's only a term that's a mathematical artifact, not a physical one; we still treat time very differently from space in general relativity and special relativity: what's changed is that we've found that spacetime or the COMBINATION of space AND time doesn't change, not that time and space are the same thing.

I'm going to need time to think up an adequate analogy to show you how Special Relativity treats time versus space, but if you don't mind math: the Spacetime interval squared is equal to - (Speed of light*time) Squared + Distance squared. Notice that the sign in front of time is DIFFERENT from the sign in front of distance. (The speed is light is there because we messed up defining our units, really, there are ways you can set length and time units so that c = 1 and you don't need to bother with it, but think of it as a way of converting between distance and time)

It's always interesting to me that philosophy types like to talk about the narrowmindedness of science types, when they're not the least bit scientifically literate, whereas almost every scientist I've talked to has been widely read (but apparently not on western philosophy specifically which makes them ignorant because ???????????) Has anyone actually seen a scientist not enjoy any book, any picture, any musical composition because they only believe in one worldview?

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