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Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime

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Am 18.02.2016 00:12, schrieb Pentcho Valev:
> https://edge.org/response-detail/25477
>   What scientific idea is ready for retirement? Steve Giddings: "Spacetime. Physics has always been regarded as playing out on an underlying stage of space and time. Special relativity joined these into spacetime... (...) The apparent need to retire classical spacetime as a fundamental concept is profound..."
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U47kyV4TMnE
>   Nima Arkani-Hamed (06:11): "Almost all of us believe that space-time doesn't really exist, space-time is doomed and has to be replaced by some more primitive building blocks."

Well, how about 'nothing'?

'Nothing' does not sound very much like 'building blocks', but is (at 
least) more primitive.

But apparently nature utilises a mechanism, which is similar (in a way) 
to the splitting of zero into plus one and minus one:
0= +1 + (-1)

Now you see only the plus things and discard the negatives. Then things 
(ones) pop out of nowhere.

The 'negative world' does not recognise positives, hence has it's own 
'big bang' (though negative).

You apparently don't believe similar is possible ?

But simple question: where is all the anti-matter?

Answer: there is a world we cannot see (and better stay away from) which 
is entirely negative (in our view). And this world balances our 
positives (or: we theirs).



TH

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Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-17 15:12 -0800
  Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 16:08 -0800
    Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-02-17 19:06 -0800
  Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-02-18 09:13 +0100
    Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-02-21 18:39 +0100
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        Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 10:42 -0800
          Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-02-21 22:10 +0100
  Re: Schizophrenia: Hailing Gravitational Waves, Rejecting Spacetime Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-21 11:51 -0800

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