For "insights," hmm, what do you mean? For certainly, being all subject to/within time, none of us can have special insight. Except as ideas about time, but then, what kind of ideas? QED ideas? "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" ideas? Carpe diem ideas? Clock-time ideas? Equation-of-time ideas? Ontological, or phenomenological, or epistemological ideas?but do you guys have any insights.... — Enrique
Three-dimensionality is essentially a product of aggregation effects, concentrations of matter into particularized masses such as solids, liquids and gases, which however never completely lose the quantum dynamism of their fluctuation and motion. — Enrique
I think there is a difficulty with this perspective. "Aggregation" implies particles of matter which aggregate. However, I think observations show that mass is the product of forces, or fields, and not the product of aggregated particles. — Metaphysician Undercover
omeone explain this "field" idea to me. I think of forces as the interactive properties of mass, and particularity as the classical interpretation of massive objects that is reductive to a certain selection of their perceived features for predictive purposes. — Enrique
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