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Eugene Shubert
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You all know that Albert Einstein was deeply religious in his pantheistic veneration of the physics of nature. No scientist today should be surprised to learn that Einstein was completely wrong about true religion. This paper is about outrageously religious ideas in the philosophy of physics.
Einstein’s greatest blunder in science was his stubborn, unrealistic faith in a deterministic universe. His belief in a mechanistic interpretation for all natural law is widely recognized as a direct denial of quantum physics and the Hebrew Bible. Einstein would express his faith by saying, “Gott wurfelt nicht!” (God does not play dice!) Of course God plays dice with light and matter. God not only plays dice with the universe, —He cheats. (I don’t mean to review the philosophical/religious underpinnings of quantum mechanics in this paper).
Einstein’s second greatest scientific blunder, which he never repudiated, was his fallacy of no absolute time order for all events in the universe and that we may not conceptualize time being divided into an absolute past, present and future.
“For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.” —Albert Einstein.
Einstein’s sophistry about time order being relative is clever and compelling but it’s inconsistent with Einstein’s favorite cosmological model. All of Einstein’s watchful, guarded reasoning in the famous train and embankment gedanken experiment derails itself in a spatially closed and bounded universe. I will demonstrate how an absolute time order follows from the laws of physics in Einstein’s universe. The argument is trivial. Here are the key ideas:
If a law is a true law of physics, then it’s true everywhere, for all time. There is a universal law of light propagation. It’s impossible to prove global theorems about time order with an insufficient array of synchronized clocks. A consistent, global view of synchronization and spacetime, based on a universal law of light propagation, outranks all local, partial and limited views of the universe.
The mathematical details continue in this link:
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/simultaneity.htm
Einstein’s greatest blunder in science was his stubborn, unrealistic faith in a deterministic universe. His belief in a mechanistic interpretation for all natural law is widely recognized as a direct denial of quantum physics and the Hebrew Bible. Einstein would express his faith by saying, “Gott wurfelt nicht!” (God does not play dice!) Of course God plays dice with light and matter. God not only plays dice with the universe, —He cheats. (I don’t mean to review the philosophical/religious underpinnings of quantum mechanics in this paper).
Einstein’s second greatest scientific blunder, which he never repudiated, was his fallacy of no absolute time order for all events in the universe and that we may not conceptualize time being divided into an absolute past, present and future.
“For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one.” —Albert Einstein.
Einstein’s sophistry about time order being relative is clever and compelling but it’s inconsistent with Einstein’s favorite cosmological model. All of Einstein’s watchful, guarded reasoning in the famous train and embankment gedanken experiment derails itself in a spatially closed and bounded universe. I will demonstrate how an absolute time order follows from the laws of physics in Einstein’s universe. The argument is trivial. Here are the key ideas:
If a law is a true law of physics, then it’s true everywhere, for all time. There is a universal law of light propagation. It’s impossible to prove global theorems about time order with an insufficient array of synchronized clocks. A consistent, global view of synchronization and spacetime, based on a universal law of light propagation, outranks all local, partial and limited views of the universe.
The mathematical details continue in this link:
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/simultaneity.htm
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