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I see. The model does appear to be irreconcilable with 'quantum uncertainty' model though, does it not? If it does, wouldn't a theory of everything have to rule out 'block time' or rule out 'uncertainty' as we understand these concepts today?

Well, this is proposed in models like the space-time 'loaf', is it not? If not then maybe I'm misunderstanding just what IS being proposed in such a model.

...is the impression that "God plays dice with the universe" an illusion? If all time in the universe is already defined, then, is the apparent randomness a result of the nature of the experiments we can perform? Does a 'sum of histories', and quantum probability... 'square' with the...

Yes, it seems to me you could illustrate the same time dilatation effect if the cow was to spin around the Earth (at the same speed), and yet the gestation period would still be that ~52 months, although the announcement of the birth would only take a few ms. to reach the Earth observer. Could...

Perhaps one or more paradoxes in physics, such as 'entanglement' for example, might be used to decide the question, prove the spacetime loaf model, and also resolve the paradoxes at the same time.

I guess that's usually the right question. . So that leads me to ask, can the spacetime loaf assertion that all time already exists be tested? Maybe that's the first question...

Back to the 'spacetime loaf' - if every moment in time already exists, as suggested in the 'time Warp' episode, and 'spacetime loaf' segment, then i don't see how God could possibly play dice with the universe... [unless, of coarse, the quantum dice are loaded, and that's no fair]. . So which...

I first read about light cones in a book called "Special Relativity" - don't remember the author, but there is a lot of stuff on it on the Internet now. Here's a taste: http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/minkowski.html The link i provided doesn't look like the best place for an...

I found an exploration of 'light cones' to be very informative and intuitive, as an introduction to this stuff. As a bonus there's no difficult math involved to get the basics of light cones down.

Hi ChrisXenon. Maybe what he is getting at is that 'time' is reversible in many scenarios, and entropy aught to get higher regardless of the 'so called' direction of time. [SIZE="1"]I'D still like to know, in Greene's 'loaf' analogy, what we see when we look at people on planets in distant...

I had it explained to me this way: Static equilibrium is a case where a system in equilibrium will return to equilibrium when an outside force pushes a system out of equilibrium. Dynamic equilibrium is a case where a system in equilibrium will not return to equilibrium once pushed out of...

Ok. Thanks all. It looks like this is taken up in more detail in two threads in the Relativity section.

Hi. Just read this article regarding test with neutrinos that suggest they travel faster than light. [PLAIN]www.theprovince.com/technology/test+suggests+Einstein+relativity+theory+wrong/5733221/story.html[/URL] I'm wondering if this apparent breaking of the speed limit might be due to...

I agree with you Chronos. That's why what Brian Greene said here is so intriguing. In his own words: [SIZE="1"]BRIAN GREENE: To get a feel for the bizarre effect this can have, imagine an alien, here, in a galaxy 10-billion light years from Earth, and way over there, on Earth, the guy at the...

Thanks Chronos. You have clearly answered what does not happen. Admittedly, I probably did a poor job of explaining myself, but essentially I'm simply looking for an answer to the question: "What would we see while observing the distant planet with a telescope", while accelerating back...