If you believe in God, refute this! - Page 84

Originally posted by: BirdieNumNum

this is why i said earlier that we have pop science that is much like pseudo science. How can anything travel in the time dimension. What would be the velocity? dt/ dt? We get a dimensionless quantity. But that has not stopped even famous physicists from parroting it. I think there's fear at work even in science- no one wants to ask the question because that would be challenging the notion that even GR is only a mathematical construct, and does not have any counterpart in nature.

Originally posted by: BirdieNumNum

yes, but there is no time dimension in nature IMO so how can time travel make sense even from a theoretical sense.Again, spacetime is just a historical collection of 3D objects. Nothing can move in it.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

You Wikipedia it 😲

Don't you know anyone can edit Wikipedia. 😛

I use Wikipedia a lot as well, even for school projects. It is an excellent resource and is usually right.. Unfortunately, being free and editable by anyone - it often comes under scrutiny as a source and sometimes you might get well written but fake vandalized articles.

For school work I click the Wikipedia citation links and use those as citations. 😆

Originally posted by: _Angie_

A gift wrapped God- is that you are looking for or are you going in for the neti neti principle?

Originally posted by: _Angie_

So its about the search for the origin. I know about adopted kids trying to trace their biological parents in a bid to search for their origin. They have a clear picture of what they mean by their origin. It's the parents who brought them into this world. Once they succeed in tracing their biological parents the search for their origin is over for them. Point being that before starting a search the object of search would have to be well defined or else we go into an infinite regress.

Originally posted by: K.Universe.

You may have won the battle vis-a-vis electron decay but I am not sure about the war.

First things first: how did you come to the conclusion that the body is made of electrons?!

Originally posted by: Vintage.Wine

..Firstly to achieve that...and then there would be questions about what will happen to a human body at such stupendous speed .. Would it energize / transform into a enormously fast wave ? And if it does how do we get that back to the original shape / size / condition immediately after upon Alpha Centaury ? 😆

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

When a person dies does data stored in the brain like memories, self identity etc get wiped out. Does death mean that our hard disk gets fried beyond repair.

Or does the data still remain. And if it does, what if we electrically hook up a brain? The brain communicates by electric impulses right. Could we potentially hook it up like a computer and access its data?

And suppose we find a way to do that. Can we live forever through our brains. Makes me wonder, if we transplant brains into a computer, into another human being, into a robot - is it still us or will it take a new life and identity.

If it is just us - can we be immortal? How essential is life.Does death become meaningless if our brain and identity can live forever.

If it is not us - then where is the essence of us?