Do you think the better Theory Of Everything ("TOE")  will be background-dependent or relational?
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Qunatum uncertainty says that you can never be certain that space is empty at Planck distances, therefore on those scales there is always some matter-energy in the form of virtual photon / antiphoton pairs that suddenly come into existence and then annilihate one another.  This suggests to me that empty space cannot exist on its own unless there is something in it.  Ultimately, we can spin whatever theories we want and debate forever which ones we prefer - but unless someone can design practical experimental methods, then the arm chair physics will not resolve very much.
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Probably. It's the best theory I've run across, anyhow.
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Is everything a response to something?
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No, I would not say that.\n\n"The development during the present century is characterized by two theoretical systems essentially independent of each other: the theory of relativity and the quantum theory. The two systems do not directly contradict each other; but they seem little adapted to fusion into one unified theory." \n- Albert Einstein, On Quantum Mechanics, 1940\n\nString theory is an attempt to reconcile both of these theories into one unifying theory.
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Theoretically Yes.\nBut then everything doesn't go in order according to numbers in life.\nIf it did however, then we wouldn't have enough processing power to predict it (if there was such a computer big enough it would in turn need a bigger computer to predict its actions and so on ad infinitum).\nSo practically No.
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The statement that no such space exists is called the Continuum Hypothesis. It was hypothesized by Cantor, but he gave no proof of it. Godel showed that it is consistent with the usual axioms of set theory to assume CH. Then Paul Cohen showed that it is also consistent with set theory to assume CH is false. In other words, the Continuum Hypothesis is independent of the axioms of set theory. You can either assume it or assume its negation without introducing inconsistencies.\n\nThat said, there are mathematicians that are trying to find other axioms that would either imply CH or its negation. These other axioms would have to have some independent reason for including them in the system, of course. Typically, their attempts have to do with the existence of 'large cardinals'.
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perhaps the four directions in american indian spirituality?  but you probably already knew that, eh lakota bob?\n\nas to the previous question, why not compare and find similarities throughout all traditions?  why not seek out what unifies us instead of separates us?
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This is just my opinion, but I think that everyone is driven by a thing that rationalizes, justifies, and projects. With that in control of their "self" there will always be misunderstandings in religion, and in politics, in philosophy, in you name it. As long as we rationalize, justify, project, and blame others for our own mistakes we'll have what we have. The only way to change that is to change the individual. The only place to start is with self. That changes part of the world for certain and gives others around the individual a positive example. That might help them change, or at least make life a little brighter for them. Oh, that thing inside each person that rationalizes, justifies, and projects? Its called ego. ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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There are various things that you might want to read about, horizon theory & donut theory might be a good place to start. Much as we once thought the world was flat and we'd fall off the edge, but then discovered that is was round when we sailed from one side of the world to the other the same is thought (by some) to also be true about the universe, you travel in a line for long enough, you start off where you left off!
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How else? All political theories are about the governance of human beings. You must have a psychological account of mans nature, regardless of psychological perspective, if you want a theory supported by facts and having predictive power.
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The name for the theory that everything was created 'as is' is the Omphalos theory. I'm not sure about the other, but it sounds like a variant of the 'tired light' theory.
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Ichi THAT is BRILLIANT......I know that in the tangential thinking that often bests me 'thinkos are the weakest links, perhaps the 'savants' of my mind and truly the innocents. Perhaps they are what saves my butt altogether.\nAbsolutely Brill!!!! I am going to ask if I may have permission to use this in my writing for in my speaking & writing i have for the first time just spoken it aloud...thank for the new concept on somethng I have been doing, another thing to obssess on, fair play to you mate, brain food doesnt often ome through the screen like this. and it just did.\nNow does this include the frontal and temporal lobes? Will Kirlean Photograhy show this in action? Or is it a different part of the brain where the lost socks of our lives go to?\nTHIS is a cool quesion. I now possess a new word..and it is awesome..."THINKOS"..now THAT is HOT!!!
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I certainly believe he would eventually have come to a conclusive resolution to the problem because Western Science as well as Eastern Philosophy are being unified in the same way, by accepting the importance of intuitive thinking as a complementary element in relation to logical thinking in getting to T/truth/s.  Eastern thought has intuitively understood universal/existential truths for thousands of years longer than Western scientific deductive reasoning has allowed Western civilization to understand those same universalities.  Math and Philosophy are unifying because the universe is unifying.  Let me give you an example I got from a book called The Tao of Physics.  It provided philosophical proof that because of the elemental nature of the universe it is possible to travel in time, and then the author proved it using mathematical formulas provided by Western Science to support truth that had been formulated over a thousand years ago.  This is what I mean when I say they are unifying.  And, I believe Einstein would have come to his conclusions in the same way because so many of his colleagues were beginning to become involved in the study of Eastern philosophy as a viable approach to understanding the nature of the universe.\n\nNow, understand that I am not a physicist by any stretch of the imagination. I am an English professor by trade and a scholar by heart.  But, everything I have read over the years about this issue among many others having to do with the nature of reality and its relationship to our omniverses points in this direction.  Yet, I'm still afraid I am being more intuitive than I am being logical.  As a Libra, it satisfies my nature though, to come to believe these kinds of things the way I come to believe them.\n\nIt's not much of a mathematical answer, but it is an answer of sorts.  I hope it gives peace and contentment to you.\n\nCC Ryder
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I have a friend who's into quasi Hindu/American Guru philosophy, and he likes to say, " This world is all simply an illusion, and the true reality lies beyond your perception".  Well I have a simple theory of reality, it's kind of like the duck theory?  "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like duck, then it must be a duck".   My theory is, "Reality is who you are, when you are, and where you are".   So, do you know who you are?  Do you know when you are?  Do you know where you are?  That is reality, and everything else is imagination, an illusion, or perhaps even a delusion.
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It all depends on how ones perception is relation to it's concepts.
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No. I find their "concrete entities such as man and society" to be perhaps less concrete than the speculations they mention. Though I am sure there is a little bit of empiricist in any rational person.
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Our dependence upon technology and the fear it fosters as technology becomes a more prevalent entity in our everyday life is the critique of contemporary culture--for example, the strange chemicals in the school that kill a worker cleaning up the asbestos or the conversation between Jack and Babette in the bedroom that is constantly interrupted by a blaring television set. I hope this helps you get another perspective on the novel. Good luck.