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- From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
- Subject: Re: Baez's "the right question".
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.082820.29787@sei.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Software Engineering Institute
- References: <Bzp9yM.48J@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:28:20 EST
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- In article <Bzp9yM.48J@well.sf.ca.us> sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
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- >I assert that the right question is to question the truth of causality
- >in the sense that causes must always precede effects in all frames of
- >reference...
-
- I reach, yet again, for the keyboard, to point out, wearily, yet again,
- that there is nothing to question. There is no scientific theory whatever
- that requires the postulate of asymmetric causality. Classical mechanics,
- general relativity, quantum mechanics, ... all are time symmetric. Any
- supposed scientific support for causality is equally support for finality,
- just as positive zero equals negative zero.
-
- The assumption of asymmetric linear causality is a naive prejudice, as
- bogus as the assumption of uniform circular motion. It exists neither
- in the equations nor in any defensible interpretation of them.
-