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I honestly have no idea. I'm a mere amateur when it comes to quantum physics. By the way, are you an academic?

I enjoyed your quasi-Derridean post. To offer some helpful suggestions (if that can be done in this instance), I think you may want to look to string theory and how the problem of the vacuum energy is resolved. Note: This is my own idea, but if the problem arises from virtual particles within the va...

A consciousness without time is not a consciousness at all. There would only be the present now and there could be no possibility for memories. We would all be like the unfortunate individual who loses the capacity to form new memories, and thus must always be trapped in his present moment when he l...

Seeing that this is a philosophy class, I would try and abandon most empirical and scientific solutions, and merely give a purely experiential (phenomenological) interpretation of the two opposing views. If you would like to incorporate some analytical philosophy, I may suggest A Treatise on Time an...

I think it would be fitting for Socratus to drink the hemlock. It's almost as if history prophesied its occurrence. Perhaps Moses spoke with the God particle, asking it to spare Socratus, but because Socratus violated almost every law of classical physics he must inevitably pay the price and submit ...

I'm not exactly sure what the post was about in the first place. I saw a bunch of 'ABSOLUTES' and then a long and arduous tennis match to see who could lob the ball out of the other's court. I applaud the regulars for their contributions, but I can't help but feel they were trying to use buckets to ...

Not to override the question entirely, but can we earnestly implicate scientific theories into the philosophy of ethics? Certainly, from the theory proposed, it would seem that persons naturally lack any moral judgment if they are to satisfy the sum over histories (Feynman). However, if we are to in...