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"Space" travel

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The length of a line is given by the number of events associated with the line:

Science imposes a spatial grid on all distances and lines, such that distance - the length of a line - is given by the number of grid events or points that fall on the line.

This means that, theoretically, a person who travels slowly to a given destination may encounter more events than the grid events imposed by science. Therefore, this person will actually travel a longer distance than the distance measured by science. This person will also travel a longer distance to the same destination than a person who travels more quickly, simply because there are more observed events on a journey that is taken more slowly.

An obvious objection is that the grid that science uses to carve up space is infinitely dense. That is, between any two spatial points lies a third. This means that no matter how slowly a person travels he will never encounter more events than is given by the infinitely dense spatial grid.

However, science's infinitely dense spatial grid suffers from a fatal flaw. If between any two spatial points there lies a third point, then the line is fractured as it contains both positioned and unpositioned points.

Time is an empty concept because "it" has no empirical or factual basis. The same can also be said of Space.
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JohniJones wrote:The length of a line is given by the number of events associated with the line:

Science imposes a spatial grid on all distances and lines, such that distance - the length of a line - is given by the number of grid events or points that fall on the line.

This means that, theoretically, a person who travels slowly to a given destination may encounter more events than the grid events imposed by science. Therefore, this person will actually travel a longer distance than the distance measured by science. This person will also travel a longer distance to the same destination than a person who travels more quickly, simply because there are more observed events on a journey that is taken more slowly.

An obvious objection is that the grid that science uses to carve up space is infinitely dense. That is, between any two spatial points lies a third. This means that no matter how slowly a person travels he will never encounter more events than is given by the infinitely dense spatial grid.

However, science's infinitely dense spatial grid suffers from a fatal flaw. If between any two spatial points there lies a third point, then the line is fractured as it contains both positioned and unpositioned points.

Time is an empty concept because "it" has no empirical or factual basis. The same can also be said of Space.
Do you not think that you are actually expressing Xeno's paradox?
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[quote=JohniJones post_id=127623 time=1356443967 user_id=5647]
[i]The length of a line is given by the number of events associated with the line:

[/i]Science imposes a spatial grid on all distances and lines, such that distance - the length of a line - is given by the number of grid events or points that fall on the line.

This means that, theoretically, a person who travels slowly to a given destination may encounter more events than the grid events imposed by science. Therefore, this person will actually travel a longer distance than the distance measured by science. This person will also travel a longer distance to the same destination than a person who travels more quickly, simply because there are more observed events on a journey that is taken more slowly.

An obvious objection is that the grid that science uses to carve up space is infinitely dense. That is, between any two spatial points lies a third. This means that no matter how slowly a person travels he will never encounter more events than is given by the infinitely dense spatial grid.

However, science's infinitely dense spatial grid suffers from a fatal flaw. If between any two spatial points there lies a third point, then the line is fractured as it contains both positioned and unpositioned points.

[b]Time is an empty concept because "it" has no empirical or factual basis. The same can also be said of Space[/b].
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Time and space are both aspects of the universal substrate of the universe - change. Time is experienced, measured change. The past is remembered change, the future is anticipated change. Space is the correlated experience of our external senses and our internal, proprioceptive sense.
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