Originally posted by @kazetnagorra
Your point is unclear. How would you explain and describe e.g. time dilation without invoking Lorentz transformations?

I wouldn't. I'd expect Lorentz (or his apologists) to slow down and make sense. Does understanding reality require a priest class?

Originally posted by @fabianfnas
If you say that the past does not exist - them how would you be born?

I wasn't born today.

If you say that the future does not exist - will you never die?
I can die die now.

Seriously. It is like you have never met tense.

fabianfnas, unless you rehabilitate, shut up and leave me alone.

Originally posted by @apathist
I wasn't born today.

[b]If you say that the future does not exist - will you never die?
I can die die now.

Seriously. It is like you have never met tense.

fabianfnas, unless you rehabilitate, shut up and leave me alone.[/b]

You say that a moving time doesn't exist.

There is a patient in UK, after an accident, has lost the perception of time. Some part of his brain is damaged. He doesn't understand the flow of time anymore. He cannot feel the past, nor he cannot plan for the future. For him 'now' is a unchangeable eternal state.

I'm glad I am not him.

Originally posted by @fabianfnas
You say that a moving time doesn't exist....

Did I? Time is not material, nor is it an energy source. It is not a dimension. It is merely a measurement of change.Change happens.

Originally posted by @christopher-albon
Sorry, I'll try and break it down into plane English.

Soar through the clouds. Don't apologize.

Originally posted by @twhitehead
... Hence a dimension is required.
...

I'd have thought that a 'dimension' is a math term. is it not? We are free in theory to move any direction within the three spatial dimensions. Are we free in theory to move through the fourth time dimension?

Reality has no obligation to conform to math dimensions.

Originally posted by @apathist
I'd have thought that a 'dimension' is a math term. is it not? We are free in theory to move any direction within the three spatial dimensions. Are we free in theory to move through the fourth time dimension?

Reality has no obligation to conform to math dimensions.

Actually, relativity restricts your motion in the three spatial dimensions.

Originally posted by @apathist
I wouldn't. I'd expect Lorentz (or his apologists) to slow down and make sense. Does understanding reality require a priest class?

What?

Originally posted by @apathist
[b]Time is not material, nor is it an energy source./b]

Who says that? I don't.