Re: Humans can't observe time. Even less, the pass of time. Science is an illusion.

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 2:05:44 +0000, Physfitfreak wrote:

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On 4/24/25 10:34 PM, gharnagel wrote:

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 3:07:37 +0000, Physfitfreak wrote:

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On 4/23/25 7:03 PM, gharnagel wrote:

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I've been reading an old book (1999) by Brian Green, "The Elegant
Universe" where he was preaching string theory.  I'm reading about
Calabi-Yau spaces.  Admittedly, these would be models of reality
at best, but I got to thinking: WHAT are they modeling?  And that
led me to think about zero point fields.  We usually mean virtual
electron-positron sea, but there's a sea of each and every virtual
particle pair.  And then Hertz asks the question: what is space?
Space is filled with these virtual particle pairs.  So the

question

is: which came first?

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Sorry, didn't know you'd responded to my dick.
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A few questions:
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1- For what audience did Green write the book?

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I would say, interested amateurs.
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2- Is he British or American?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene
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3- What do you mean, saying he "was preaching" something?

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When he wrote the book, string theory had just undergone its
third revival.
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As you see, my dick doesn't even want to look them up, cause
he isn't sure its worth it.

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It should have more faith.  Or not.
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Number 2 question is for my dick to find out whether, say, if
the author wants to tell the readers someone micro-manages,
which one of the following two ways he chooses to express it:
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American way:  "He micromanages."
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British way:   "His ascendancy over everybody is quite curious:
the extent to which every officer and man feels the slightest
rebuke or praise, would have been before seeing him,
incomprehensible..."
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So my dick naturally finds it prudent to know that important fact in
advance.

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Ya lost me there.

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Again I didn't see your followup. I think for some reason they get stuck
in Solana. Do you mess with the headers of your posts?

Nope.  The app I'm using does some thing I don't like, though.

Did he (Green) explain the stuff clearly enough for the "interested
amateurs? Like, for instance, how Sagan did.

Depends on how interested the amateur is.  When he gets into Calabi-Yao
geometry he shows enough to let one know that here there be dragons.