The universe is as a spring wound up that is now slowly unwinding, this giving it 'oomph'; so, something had to have piled up, due to the meeting with some limit, and then the universe came forth, and long it will last, until all the stars have gone and all the photons are far apart. — PoeticUniverse
After all, there is no other way for a universe to be perceived. It can't be seen or experienced but it's within the reaches of thought surely. — Razorback kitten
Perhaps it would be better to accept that the nature of the real cannot be captured, but only glimpsed, in thought; which should not be all that surprising when you think about it. — Janus
Continuing this line of though, have you ever read/considered Sartre, or Camus. Or even better, Henry Miller and Bukowski. Or going harder on Kafka, Dostoevsky and Goncharov?
Kant is so insipid...it is just formality...I´m sorry, just my opinion. And i think you are eager and full of life, and deserve other perspectives...
No disrespect meant ;) — James Pullman
Though what do we do with this. Does this idea of yours preclude getting more information/comign to a closer model of reality? If it does't then how do we use the idea? How would one know you are correct, that we have reached the limit already`? How do know what future evidence will or will not refine about our knowledge and models? — Coben
Though what do we do with this. Does this idea of yours preclude getting more information/comign to a closer model of reality? If it does't then how do we use the idea? How would one know you are correct, that we have reached the limit already`? How do know what future evidence will or will not refine about our knowledge and models? — Coben
The noumenal world is inherently out of bounds from our perceiving minds. — Noah Te Stroete
Physicists seem to think there are ways to confirm or at least add evidence there are parallel universes. Cosmologists in general don't see themselves as simply making up models that cannot be tested.IOW our knowledge could continue to expand and not just beI haven't proposed any limits or that we have "reached" any limits. We can develop ever more elaborate models that we may think are "closer to reality", but how would we really know? — Janus
Even if we knew that our models do reflect reality (whatever we might think that means) how could we ever know how comprehensive they are? — Janus
Gravity is created by matter and it only effects matter - it has no effect on space or time.
Time is a constant - it does not / can not, slow or stop. — gater
Time dilation is the effect gravity has on devices that measure time - gravity effects matter, it has no effect on actual time. — gater
If it is finite, we still got a lot to discover, and there are no boundaries that divide the universe, it might or not exist something else (or Kant did not defined the universe correctly or does not defines boundaries correctly - there is no Canada beyond its' boundaries/frontiers); — James Pullman
- If it is infinite, is it obliged to be understood? Or more, can´t human perception development also not be infinite, and thus open the possibility that it might be understood? Or is it that Kant limits human understanding by its' mind understanding — James Pullman
The universe is as a spring wound up that is now slowly unwinding, this giving it 'oomph'; so, something had to have piled up, due to the meeting with some limit, and then the universe came forth, and long it will last, until all the stars have gone and all the photons are far apart.
— PoeticUniverse
The quantum foam is believable, it being confirmed by QCD predictions and measurements, plus noted by Casmir's plates being drawn together. It is as a Sea of Possibility. In the quantum foam, virtual particles pop in and out, always in pairs of matter and anti-matter. They appear but must then go away very quickly, this somehow satisfying the debits and credits on the ledger of nature's thumbnail account.
Something went out of kilter.
The quantum foam can't go away; it is still with us today. — PoeticUniverse
Time dilation is the effect gravity has on devices that measure time - gravity effects matter, it has no effect on actual time. — gater
When Kant talks of the universe in the context of his antinomies, he means the physical universe, i.e. the universe that humans perceive. Since humans cannot perceive infinity, the universe cannot be infinite. — Echarmion
Since humans cannot perceive infinity? - Why not? Infinity is simple, it means forever, not a difficult concept — gater
Since humans cannot perceive infinity? — gater
If reality has different times in relation to the distance from the gravitational source, then time is different. There is no other time than the time that reality is following. From a physicalists perspective you are falsely making time transcendent. — Coben
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