Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 199ff
Change/Motion: discrete variables do not occur in classical physics. How can you get from zero to one? In classical physics you have to jump unsteadily, this is not compatible with how forces and movements work in mechanics.
Discontinuous change is not necessary in quantum physics. Before the change it has the value zero in all universes. After the change, it has the value 1 in all universes. During the change, the fraction of universes in which the value is zero decreases steadily from 100 percent to 0, and vice versa.
At the level of the multiverse, the motion is objectively continuous - subjectively, from the perspective of a single universe, it is unsteady.
>Time, >Past, >Present, >Future, >Change, >Processes,
>Space-time, >Space-time points.
I 200
Motion: the idea that something moves through a diagram in which time is already represented is simply wrong. The diagram shows all these universes at all times. They do not move anywhere.
Cf. >Four dimensionalism.
I 253
Change: Time flow exists only in connection with causes and effects. Change: one part of space-time can change another as little as one part of a solid three-dimensional object can change another part of that same object. ((s) So no cause and effect?)
I 260
Moment: it is pointless to say that one moment after the other has been "laid down". That would be the flow of time. So we see that space-time itself is incompatible with the existence of cause and effect.
>Cause, >Effect.