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Old 12-11-2013, 04:42 PM
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While I respect your devotion to the absolute of the possible - aliens aren't going to land on earth in two minutes and hand us advanced technology fundamentally changing our world view as a species - that's not practical. Would it be better if I stated that it is extremely unlikely that in the foreseeable near future we will be able to prove that anything exists beyond what we can observe and interaction with directly or otherwise? You're arguing semantics.
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And yes, it is a philosophical argument in my opinion since it can not be verified empirically - we've crossed from the tangible to the esoteric.
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:52 PM
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Provide the evidence of interactions beyond the "boundaries" of our universe and I will gladly recant my statement. Everything I've ever learned about physics tells me that if you can't directly, or indirectly observe and interaction with "something" then you can not accurately say whether it is, or is not there - you simply don't know.
TBH, I put some thought into this after I made my post.

I think the way Nassim demonstrates it is wrong in his assumptions.

That boundary would be a soft boundary and move with the frame of reference, the bubbles would move with the point of view of the observer. This is of course all mathematical simulation of physics. That's probably the most simplified way of seeing it. I couldn't begin to really grasp the math at it. But the abstract is there. It would be something worthy to look into.

In his lectures he asserts you couldn't possibly pass up a boundary, but only down a boundary.

I think that's incorrect, and that the boundaries aught to be represented more holographically, maybe simultaneously co-existing, and indeed, there is no boundary at all if your near the edge. You only perceive such boundaries.

And add in the idea that as above, so below, the universe/nature is fractal (this is just a perceptual, constant). You would get an ideal model.

A easy example of what I'm talking about is:

As you move your universe changes gradually, but you could leave the universe behind. I.e. your origin can pass beyond your boundary. At which point you are no longer in the old known universe. Probably at these points you might see duplication or replication.

A further affect would be that... you are being reached by photons while, in the past, that are from the extreme boundry of your current universe, and that information is constantly there. You don't have to physically be at the end of the universe to see it. Time complicates things obviously and this is were I fall at conceptualizing space/time. And probably were Einstien kicks ass.

Currently improvable to an extent. Yet if you look at the far away background radiation of the galaxy you see what visually represents the same picture as a Nueral network. See Chandra X Ray observatory: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/05_releases/press_040805.html

If you think about it. One day, we'll be able to map enough of the sky to see that this observation does have some evidence backing it up. Currently we don't.

But the theory is sound at the moment. As the ideas are based in current known scientific models. I'm sure we'll refine them over the years. But the basic abstract concepts aught to not change much.

If they do, that will be an eye opener.
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Old 12-11-2013, 04:54 PM
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And yes, it is a philosophical argument in my opinion since it can not be verified empirically - we've crossed from the tangible to the esoteric.
Right, and from an epistomological point of view, you can't say that it's impossible to prove other universes exist. All you can really say is that we have not at present time shown good evidence to believe other universes exist. I guess that's what you consider a good point of discussion?
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You're arguing semantics.
Literally had to tell him I wasn't going to argue semantics with him in another thread. LOL.
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TBH, I put some thought into this after I made my post.

I think the way Nassim demonstrates it is wrong in his assumptions.

That boundary would be a soft boundary and move with the frame of reference, the bubbles would move with the point of view of the observer. This is of course all mathematical simulation of physics. That's probably the most simplified way of seeing it. I couldn't begin to really grasp the math at it. But the abstract is there. It would be something worthy to look into.

In his lectures he asserts you couldn't possibly pass up a boundary, but only down a boundary.

I think that's incorrect, and that the boundaries aught to be represented more holographically, maybe simultaneously co-existing, and indeed, there is no boundary at all if your near the edge. You only perceive such boundaries.

And add in the idea that as above, so below, the universe/nature is fractal (this is just a perceptual, constant). You would get an ideal model.

A easy example of what I'm talking about is:

As you we move our universe changes gradually, but you could leave the universe behind. I.e. our origin can pass beyond your boundary. At which point we are no longer in the old known universe. Probably at these points we might see duplication or replication. Earth2, not perfect perhaps it might take infinite regression to find that one... but similarities on a very weird level.

We are being reached by photons while, in the past, that are from the extreme boundary of your current universe, and that information is constantly there. You don't have to physically be at the end of the universe to see it. Time complicates things obviously and this is were I fall at conceptualizing space/time. And probably were Einstein kicks ass.

Currently improvable to an extent. Yet if you look at the far away background radiation of the universe you see what visually represents the same picture as a Neural network. See Chandra X Ray observatory: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/05_releases/press_040805.html

If you think about it. One day, we'll be able to map enough of the sky to see that this observation does have some evidence backing it up. Currently we don't.

But the theory is sound at the moment. As the ideas are based in current known scientific models. I'm sure we'll refine them over the years. But the basic abstract concepts aught to not change much.

If they do, that will be an eye opener.
I changed a bit of the wording after I read it, major changes highlighted. It's really not unique to Nassims perspective on physics. He's just the person who got me thinking about how the universe might be organized a bit more aggressively than other thinkers. (Note I'm not calling anyone here a scientist)
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And the whole point of my TLDR double post, is that some philosophy can be backed up by science. See chandra/dark matter.
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meaning yeah, some empirical thought beyond philosophy. to say you cant empirically prove a philosophical point is kinda illogical.
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Literally had to tell him I wasn't going to argue semantics with him in another thread. LOL.
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TBH, I put some thought into this after I made my post.

I think the way Nassim demonstrates it is wrong in his assumptions.

That boundary would be a soft boundary and move with the frame of reference, the bubbles would move with the point of view of the observer. This is of course all mathematical simulation of physics. That's probably the most simplified way of seeing it. I couldn't begin to really grasp the math at it. But the abstract is there. It would be something worthy to look into.

In his lectures he asserts you couldn't possibly pass up a boundary, but only down a boundary.

I think that's incorrect, and that the boundaries aught to be represented more holographically, maybe simultaneously co-existing, and indeed, there is no boundary at all if your near the edge. You only perceive such boundaries.

And add in the idea that as above, so below, the universe/nature is fractal (this is just a perceptual, constant). You would get an ideal model.

A easy example of what I'm talking about is:

As you move your universe changes gradually, but you could leave the universe behind. I.e. your origin can pass beyond your boundary. At which point you are no longer in the old known universe. Probably at these points you might see duplication or replication.

A further affect would be that... you are being reached by photons while, in the past, that are from the extreme boundry of your current universe, and that information is constantly there. You don't have to physically be at the end of the universe to see it. Time complicates things obviously and this is were I fall at conceptualizing space/time. And probably were Einstien kicks ass.

Currently improvable to an extent. Yet if you look at the far away background radiation of the galaxy you see what visually represents the same picture as a Nueral network. See Chandra X Ray observatory: http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/05_releases/press_040805.html

If you think about it. One day, we'll be able to map enough of the sky to see that this observation hopefully does have some evidence backing it up. Currently we don't.

But the theory is sound at the moment. As the ideas are based in current known scientific models. I'm sure we'll refine them over the years. But the basic abstract concepts aught to not change much.

If they do, that will be an eye opener.
Bold is what I have been taught, I challenged my physics professor on this point and he concisely corrected me. I agree the hypothesis is plausible, but I'm hesitant to take anything purely based in math as empirical evidence. Yes it's logical, yes it makes sense, but we don't *currently have a way of verifying it. It's sort of like talking about the possibility of deities existing, we can talk about it for years on end and never reach a conclusion because both sides of that argument can be argued equally well. I choose to take the QM approach, until the results are observed all answers are true - and even then observing them changes them. Part of the problem with attempting to determine where the boundary of the universe is that you have to pick a point that is the middle, and *currently we have no means of doing this besides arbitrarily using our planet.
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