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  1. @chemoelectric Action by simultaneous motion can easily be imagined, but could it not be a fault with the independent versus dependent idea of mechanised energy experiments? I’m thinking of energy being exclusively independent as in photons or dependent as in the projection of their wave like properties. In opposition to that, what matters is how matter interacts; so the properties of spin are constant across distances and do not contradict the relativity of time. Or to posit it from the dialectic of a philosophical standpoint, the abstract classification and reductionist division of sets is in opposition to the interdependent foundation of their categories. #PhilosophyOfPhysics #TheoreticalFoundations

  2. @chemoelectric Action by simultaneous motion can easily be imagined, but could it not be a fault with the independent versus dependent idea of mechanised energy experiments? I’m thinking of energy being exclusively independent as in photons or dependent as in the projection of their wave like properties. In opposition to that, what matters is how matter interacts; so the properties of spin are constant across distances and do not contradict the relativity of time. Or to posit it from the dialectic of a philosophical standpoint, the abstract classification and reductionist division of sets is in opposition to the interdependent foundation of their categories. #PhilosophyOfPhysics #TheoreticalFoundations

  3. @chemoelectric Action by simultaneous motion can easily be imagined, but could it not be a fault with the independent versus dependent idea of mechanised energy experiments? I’m thinking of energy being exclusively independent as in photons or dependent as in the projection of their wave like properties. In opposition to that, what matters is how matter interacts; so the properties of spin are constant across distances and do not contradict the relativity of time. Or to posit it from the dialectic of a philosophical standpoint, the abstract classification and reductionist division of sets is in opposition to the interdependent foundation of their categories. #PhilosophyOfPhysics #TheoreticalFoundations

  4. @chemoelectric Action by simultaneous motion can easily be imagined, but could it not be a fault with the independent versus dependent idea of mechanised energy experiments? I’m thinking of energy being exclusively independent as in photons or dependent as in the projection of their wave like properties. In opposition to that, what matters is how matter interacts; so the properties of spin are constant across distances and do not contradict the relativity of time. Or to posit it from the dialectic of a philosophical standpoint, the abstract classification and reductionist division of sets is in opposition to the interdependent foundation of their categories. #PhilosophyOfPhysics #TheoreticalFoundations

  5. @chemoelectric Action by simultaneous motion can easily be imagined, but could it not be a fault with the independent versus dependent idea of mechanised energy experiments? I’m thinking of energy being exclusively independent as in photons or dependent as in the projection of their wave like properties. In opposition to that, what matters is how matter interacts; so the properties of spin are constant across distances and do not contradict the relativity of time. Or to posit it from the dialectic of a philosophical standpoint, the abstract classification and reductionist division of sets is in opposition to the interdependent foundation of their categories. #PhilosophyOfPhysics #TheoreticalFoundations

  6. The Void isn’t nothing.
    In the Bubbleverse model, it’s a medium with almost frozen time — a background ledger that remembers, recycles, and slowly breathes between universes.

    “Nothingness” holds memory and potential.
    It’s the silent engine of every birth, drift, and collapse of spacetime.

    #cosmology #Bubbleverse #philosophyofphysics #scicomm

  7. What are the fundamental (philosophical) assumptions that we make about our universe in order to have predictive model of the universe based on the phenomenological evidence?

    I can think of two:

    1) Spacetime inveriance
    2) Locality

    Perhaps also:

    0) Objective reality exists

    cc @johncarlosbaez

    #Physics #PhilosophyOfPhysics

  8. What are the fundamental (philosophical) assumptions that we make about our universe in order to have predictive model of the universe based on the phenomenological evidence?

    I can think of two:

    1) Spacetime inveriance
    2) Locality

    Perhaps also:

    0) Objective reality exists

    cc @johncarlosbaez

    #Physics #PhilosophyOfPhysics

  9. /2

    @philosophy @philosophie

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics
    #space
    #EarlyModernPhilosophy

    wrt the hiatus in
    understanding the objectivity of physical space

    by

    #Descartes
    #Newton

    on one side,

    on the other - in a way all - say of

    #Spinoza
    #Leibniz
    #duChatelet
    #Kant

    there's an imop particularly interesting preprint by Aaron Wells (uni paderborn) on Émilie du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects, viz.

    philarchive.org/rec/
    WELINA-2

  10. /2

    @philosophy @philosophie

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics
    #space
    #EarlyModernPhilosophy

    wrt the hiatus in
    understanding the objectivity of physical space

    by

    #Descartes
    #Newton

    on one side,

    on the other - in a way all - say of

    #Spinoza
    #Leibniz
    #duChatelet
    #Kant

    there's an imop particularly interesting preprint by Aaron Wells (uni paderborn) on Émilie du Châtelet and the Post-Newtonian Debate on the Physical Significance of Mathematical Objects, viz.

    philarchive.org/rec/
    WELINA-2

  11. /1

    @philosophy
    @philosophie

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics
    #space
    #Leibniz
    #Kant

    rather fortuitously this morning I found the English version of
    J.R. Álvarez

    academia.edu/116274735/KANT_PH

    then turned to the 'metaphysische Anfangsgründe ..."-text he is about there and gladly found this #phil #sunday #word

    "... Weil ich den erweiterten, obgleich immer noch materiellen Raum nur in Gedanken habe und mir von der Materie, die ihn bezeichnet, nichts bekannt ist, so abstrahire ich von dieser, und er wird daher wie ein reiner, nicht empirischer und absoluter Raum vorgestellt, mit dem ich jeden empirischen vergleichen und diesen in ihm als beweglich vorstellen kann, der also jederzeit als unbeweglich gilt. Ihn zum wirklichen Dinge zu machen, heisst die logische Allgemeinheit irgend eines Raumes, mit dem ich jeden empirischen als darin eingeschlossen vergleichen kann, in eine physische Allgemeinheit des wirklichen Umfanges verwechseln, und die Vernunft in ihrer Idee missverstehen."

    (I. Hauptstück - Phoronomie)

  12. /1

    @philosophy
    @philosophie

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics
    #space
    #Leibniz
    #Kant

    rather fortuitously this morning I found the English version of
    J.R. Álvarez

    academia.edu/116274735/KANT_PH

    then turned to the 'metaphysische Anfangsgründe ..."-text he is about there and gladly found this #phil #sunday #word

    "... Weil ich den erweiterten, obgleich immer noch materiellen Raum nur in Gedanken habe und mir von der Materie, die ihn bezeichnet, nichts bekannt ist, so abstrahire ich von dieser, und er wird daher wie ein reiner, nicht empirischer und absoluter Raum vorgestellt, mit dem ich jeden empirischen vergleichen und diesen in ihm als beweglich vorstellen kann, der also jederzeit als unbeweglich gilt. Ihn zum wirklichen Dinge zu machen, heisst die logische Allgemeinheit irgend eines Raumes, mit dem ich jeden empirischen als darin eingeschlossen vergleichen kann, in eine physische Allgemeinheit des wirklichen Umfanges verwechseln, und die Vernunft in ihrer Idee missverstehen."

    (I. Hauptstück - Phoronomie)

  13. During the UPAC colloquium work in progress session next Tuesday (28 Nov), we will be discussing the draft by Adrien De Sutter:
    A Universe Lost to the World? On Speculative Origins; Or, Why the Universe may be running away from Cosmologists.
    uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-phil

    #sociology #cosmology #philosophy #philosophyofphysics

  14. During the UPAC colloquium reading session next Tuesday (16:00-17:00), we will be discussing a paper by Milan M. Ćirković and Slobodan Perović: "Alternative explanations of the cosmic microwave background: A historical and an epistemological perspective".

    uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-phil

    #hps #philosophy #cmb #philosophyofphysics

  15. Cool, accessible article over at #Aeon about the strangeness and complexity of atoms and their components, and how the popular idea that atoms are mostly empty space is problematic.
    (The author mentions an episode of Cosmos in which Sagan says that, and which I remember vividly despite the decades in between)
    aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-a

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics #quantumtheory #ScienceComm

  16. Cool, accessible article over at #Aeon about the strangeness and complexity of atoms and their components, and how the popular idea that atoms are mostly empty space is problematic.
    (The author mentions an episode of Cosmos in which Sagan says that, and which I remember vividly despite the decades in between)
    aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-a

    #PhilosophyOfPhysics #quantumtheory #ScienceComm