It seems like the question may concern the definition of "time" and "space". I think I am defining them to mean by definition that they are independent of the observer, whereas I am agreeing that individual measurements via "clocks" and "rulers" could be dependent on the observer as the...
I agree that any discussion of reality has to be an attempt to look at all the observable evidence and argue towards the best explanation. What I am thinking is that it seems like we may be getting our perceptions of the limitations of our tools/perspective intermixed with our perception of...
Thanks. Basically, I'm thinking this discussion would eventually go like this (but probably in three separate questions):
1. Can anyone show that Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are not still based on Logical Positivism? If Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are based on logical positivism...
When I went through a course on Relativity, the professor said that relativity was at its foundation based on the philosophy of logical positivism (i.e., the only meaningful discussion is of observations, no discussion of a larger reality is meaningful), which seems to preclude larger...
One question would be what "time" actually is. A time scale seems to be a measurement tool created by observers using selected "clocks" (uniformly repeating events) to measure other events by. Using that definition, I would argue that "time" is an abstract concept that has no actual reality...