Re:John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017)
by benreesman on Sunday September 11, 2022 @10:08PM
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As just one more computer programmer mouthing off about a Nobel Laureate's assertions in the grand tradition of HN:
I find it far more useful to think about boundary cases like "first time" or "farthest distance" in terms of observable causal structure: what can currently know about the cause and effect relationship between things, what could we possibly know, and what could we never know? Outside of that it seems to be not only a slippery but also a steep slope into sloppy analogy to human experience.
I find it far more useful to think about boundary cases like "first time" or "farthest distance" in terms of observable causal structure: what can currently know about the cause and effect relationship between things, what could we possibly know, and what could we never know? Outside of that it seems to be not only a slippery but also a steep slope into sloppy analogy to human experience.