Saturday, August 25, 2018

Internal time and God

  1. The internal time of a substance is constituted by the causal order within its accidents.
  2. But God is a substance that has no accidents.
  3. So God has no internal time.
Pity that both premises are controversial.

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  2. Philip Rand said...
    Your concerns are solved thus:

    x1=ix, x2=iy, x3=iz, x4=ct

    r=(x,y,z), x=(x1,x2,x3,x4)

    Sorry, noted the "==", this may have caused confusion.

    The above can also be read as:

    x1=x, x2=y, x3=z, x4=ict

    r=(x,y,z), x=(x1,x2,x3,x4)

    Both choices of co-ordinates, (ir,ct) or (r,ict) fully describe the system.

    The interesting question is: Where is zero? and: Is zero simple?

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  5. Another interesting question is: Why is light so important?

    Since the laws of physics are symmetric:

    particle + anti-particle -> annihilation + photon

    particle - anti-particle <- construction - photon

    What is one of the terms Christ uses to describe Himself?

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  6. Dear Philip: Thank you for all your contributions, but I am afraid a number of your comments while intriguing are too cryptic and off-topic. I may have to start deleting such comments.

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  7. Asses prefer straw to gold. [Heraclitus]

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