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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity,sci.physics,sci.math
Subject: Re: Humans can't observe time. Even less, the pass of time. Science
 is an illusion.
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:05:44 -0500
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On 4/24/25 10:34 PM, gharnagel wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 3:07:37 +0000, Physfitfreak wrote:
>>
>> On 4/23/25 7:03 PM, gharnagel wrote:
>> >
>> > I've been reading an old book (1999) by Brian Green, "The Elegant
>> > Universe" where he was preaching string theory.  I'm reading about
>> > Calabi-Yau spaces.  Admittedly, these would be models of reality
>> > at best, but I got to thinking: WHAT are they modeling?  And that
>> > led me to think about zero point fields.  We usually mean virtual
>> > electron-positron sea, but there's a sea of each and every virtual
>> > particle pair.  And then Hertz asks the question: what is space?
>> > Space is filled with these virtual particle pairs.  So the question
>> > is: which came first?
>>
>> Sorry, didn't know you'd responded to my dick.
>>
>> A few questions:
>>
>> 1- For what audience did Green write the book?
> 
> I would say, interested amateurs.
> 
>> 2- Is he British or American?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene
> 
>> 3- What do you mean, saying he "was preaching" something?
> 
> When he wrote the book, string theory had just undergone its
> third revival.
> 
>> As you see, my dick doesn't even want to look them up, cause
>> he isn't sure its worth it.
> 
> It should have more faith.  Or not.
> 
>> Number 2 question is for my dick to find out whether, say, if
>> the author wants to tell the readers someone micro-manages,
>> which one of the following two ways he chooses to express it:
>>
>> American way:  "He micromanages."
>>
>> British way:   "His ascendancy over everybody is quite curious:
>> the extent to which every officer and man feels the slightest
>> rebuke or praise, would have been before seeing him,
>> incomprehensible..."
>>
>> So my dick naturally finds it prudent to know that important fact in
>> advance.
> 
> Ya lost me there.


Again I didn't see your followup. I think for some reason they get stuck 
in Solana. Do you mess with the headers of your posts? Relf used to do 
that and many of his posts wouldn't make it to my computer.

Did he (Green) explain the stuff clearly enough for the "interested 
amateurs? Like, for instance, how Sagan did.