so, having covered the issues in my last post, I will
go the next step…….
which is we don’t seem to be able to create a “philosophy” based
on motion or movement. I don’t see how you can create a human
philosophy based on how things move, things being either planets
or the sun or the stars or the universe… everything moves, we get this,
but it doesn’t seem to get us to any form of “philosophy”………
so, much of our philosophical heritage is about space/time…
again beginning with the new physics… and going until
Einstein, who connected space and time into………… space/time…
pretty original, don’t you think?
anyway, so we have space/time and now what?
it seems to me that if space can bend as it does, see wiki’s article
on "space/time and look at the diagram of earth bending space, as it sits
on “space”…………if this is true and we don’t have any reason to doubt it,
then space itself is an object! in other words, if space can bend, it is something
physical and not some mental construct… if as Einstein noted, time does seem
to, depending on our facilities, move fast or move slowly, then time seems to
be a mental construct, but that doesn’t make sense if Einstein is right about
space/time………
let us think about this a different way………….
we humans, we exists within and of space/time…… it is not something that
is separate or outside of us, we exist and have existed within space/time since
our birth……….take a walk from one side of the room to the other and that is
space and it takes time to walk from one side of the room to the other…
so space does exist and apparently so does time………….
so, let us break out space and time for the moment……
space I contend, is a physical matter… it has properties that
are matter… it can bend, it can flex, it can be sucked into a black hole…
it has physical properties… which means it is a physical object…….
so what might space be made of, if it has physical properties?
ahhhhh, that is the 64,000 dollar question…….
science calls space/time, dimensions… like up and down,
think of the length, height and breath of a box… those are dimensions
and we think of time as another aspect of those dimensions…
so we have 4 dimensions………(and other dimensions but that is
trickier and we won’t involve ourselves in that)
but thinking of space/time as dimension doesn’t get us any closer
to some answers about what, if any, physical properties, space or even time
for that matter, might have…
but the problem with any of this is, it doesn’t seem to leave us any closer to
be able to manufacture or create a philosophy from any of this, space/time
or the 4 dimensions or motion………… I just don’t see anyway to get from here to there…
from space/time/dimensions/movement to any sort of philosophy………
so, what might we deduce from this?
Kropotkin