Why is "now" the same for everybody?

[tar]

Alan McDougall,

 

So is it incorrect to assume the C theory. That each of us is a focal point, an entity that senses, and remembers the past, and builds an analog model of our surroundings, in which we can practice and predict outcomes, and take the actions that will work out the best for us, at least in theory.

 

To have this ability is not a thing only humans do. Animals and plants as well hold strategies for doing what is in their best interests to do. They too are tied to the temporal, in terms of what they are going to do, next.

 

C theory would suggest that ALL of the entities in the universe are in this state, of "about to do" what they are going to do next. And they all are tied together by the speed of light, in terms of when and how what they do next, affects the rest of the universe later.

 

In C theory, B theory is incorrect in assuming that the future is the same as the past. It is not the same. It has not happened yet. Not here and now, where and when the actual business of the universe happens. And the same goes for the rest of the universe.

 

Regards, TAR2

[LaurieAG]

It's probably just as well that Ferdinand Magellan ignored the risk of falling off the edge of the world to circumnavigate it.

 

He assumed that as long as wherever you move to is connected to wherever you moved from and you travel at relatively finite velocities for fixed distances you can map your progress. It is called dead reconing navigation in coastal waters and its modern offshore partner is called celestial navigation. Whether the world was physically round or flat was decided once and for all when his boat came back in, not before, same goes for now.