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If we move towards the (quantum) microworld in our investigation of reality, the concepts of cause and (deterministic) effect begin to disappear. We are more likely to talk about probabilities, optima and harmony. The inner mechanisms mediating the final (macroscopic) effect are causally elusive, ho...

Gravity is geometry; it is bent space, objects follow its curves, this is gravity. It is not a force; it is the terrain of space. Geometry is mathematics, ideological extrapolation. Real space has an indispensable supporting structure that is subject to, accepts electric and magnetic polarizations,...

The definition of “good”, “best”, “justice” or “rightness” exists objectively, that is, in the world of ideas… I often feel that we are permanently confronted with it… Well, I don't mean as a "thing" but rather as a pressure, a force...

The fundamental source of “paradoxes” (contradictions) in physics is the assumption that reality (physical space) is infinitely subtle (continuous), that is, that it is an idea…

… The efforts to "pull" gravity into quantum mechanics are evidently the reason for the stagnation of physics... Equally stupid are attempts to “work” with the continuous macroscopic Minkowski metric, based on the “empirical” property of the vacuum/aether, in the discrete quantum microwor...

And from another perspective: I don't think gravity is an elementary force (i.e. a property of the micro/quantum world). I think it is a force only secondarily mediated by massive deformations of the real structure of physical reality, i.e. matter dissolved in physical space/aether. The efforts to &...

A real thing can't be infinitely fine, I think. What would it be made of? Nothing? These are meaningless questions outside of a reductionist framework. Things aren't "made of" anything. That's just your substance metaphysic asking faulty questions. I think logic is absolutely relentless i...

Why? Planck time is just the limit beyond which quantum-gravitational effects become non-negligible. It's the practical limit of our current theories, not a fundamental discretization of time. I don't know, but it is clear that elementary particles, molecules, DNA, but also the alphabet, words, log...

OK, so how long is a moment of time? What's the duration of an instant? Let's say Planck time, the last sediment of the past? Why? Planck time is just the limit beyond which quantum-gravitational effects become non-negligible. It's the practical limit of our current theories, not a fundamental disc...

The speed of light, c, is an empirical electromagnetic property of vacuum/aether. It is difficult to understand by what mechanism any speed could be limited to such a c in general. I would rather understand this limitation as the fact that nothing can “outrun” time. That is, for example, a particle ...

Indivisible clouds? You're conflating mathematics with physics, reality cannot appear continuous, infinitely focusable - time keeps running and swallowing the future bit by bit... OK, so how long is a moment of time? What's the duration of an instant? Let's say Planck time, the last sediment of the...

A smooth (read: infinitely differentiable) manifold. Reality is granular, quantized. Has anyone ever seen half an electron, for example? Smooth space-time is a mathematical idea, extrapolation… That's a meaningless statement in context of the mathematical description of electrons. The wavefunction ...

Skepdick wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2025 10:02 am

socrattus wrote: ↑Mon Jun 16, 2025 2:30 am What is spacetime?

A smooth (read: infinitely differentiable) manifold.

Reality is granular, quantized. Has anyone ever seen half an electron, for example? Smooth space-time is a mathematical idea, extrapolation…

Time and structure are not separate phenomena. Time is the way in which structure arises. And structure is the trace that time has left. In other words: • Without order, without sequences, there would be nothing to call “time”. • Without time, structure could not arise, because there would be no “g...

Time and structure are not separate phenomena. Time is the way in which structure arises. And structure is the trace that time has left. In other words: • Without order, without sequences, there would be nothing to call “time”. • Without time, structure could not arise, because there would be no “gr...