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Philosophy of Time

Posted 6 years ago

If the universe is a deterministically evolving hypergraph - is the state of previous cycles preserved?

This is another way of asking (in this model) if the past is real? Is the future real? or is this model an example of Presentism rather than a Block Universe?

POSTED BY: Barry Silverman
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POSTED BY: Jarek Duda

Let me add a remark about CPT theorem and its possible applications - most physicists believe this symmetry is satisfied, it also contains time symmetry. So can we prove that causality only works past -> future? (as in Euler-Lagrange, in contrast to the least action principle).

For example laser causes excitation of target later - so shouldn't CPT analogue of laser cause deexcitation of target earlier?

While building "CPT analogue of laser" might seem extremely difficult, for free electron laser (FEL) it looks quite simple: CPT FEL

POSTED BY: Jarek Duda
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POSTED BY: Jeff Yates
Posted 6 years ago
POSTED BY: Steve Paige
POSTED BY: Barry Silverman
Posted 6 years ago
POSTED BY: Max Piskunov
Posted 6 years ago
POSTED BY: Max Piskunov

Thank you for your reply. I did not understand that the evolution of the graph is not somehow relate to time as observed from inside.

How then, does the evolution of the system by running the rule relate to "time" as perceived by an observer inside the system? How is the Arrow of Time represented, and how is the portion of the graph representing the past protected from further "evolution" by future events?

POSTED BY: Barry Silverman

If the universe is a deterministically evolving hypergraph - is the state of previous cycles preserved?

This is another way of asking (in this model) if the past is real? Is the future real? or is this model an example of Presentism rather than a Block Universe?

POSTED BY: Arsalan Lavang
POSTED BY: Jonathan Gorard
POSTED BY: Barry Silverman
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