Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id AAA03531 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:41:51 GMT Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:36:05 -0800 Message-Id: <200201310036.g0V0a5R01566@mail12.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [66.156.195.74] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: ality Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Re: alityDate: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 06:55:50 -0800
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>
>Dace,
>
>I liked your explication of spacetime. It came to grips with the
>relationship between mind and reality pretty well. One more item that
>should be included is our used of the term "dimension." People talk of
>dimensions as if they were places rather than measuring tools. All
>dimensions are ways of measuring distance. Height is a measure of the
>distance up, width is a measure of the distance 90 degrees away from up, and
>length is measured 90 degrees away from both up and wide. Time is just the
>distance traveled by the object measured by the other three dimensions
>compared to the speed and distance of some other object -- most often the
>rotation of the earth.
>
>Therefore dimensions, too, are human constructs used to map the universe we
>see inside our brains. They are not places we can venture into. Space is a
>place, the measurement of space is not. Dimensions are just ways of looking
>at space by comparing one arbitrarily chosen section of it to another.
>Again, the comparison takes place in the brain and not in space.
>
>Grant
>
If we measure these things by Planck instants and Planck constants, then we are measuring them by multiples of the smallest distances and durations possible in the universe. Nothing arbitrary about that.
>
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