Chapter 3 - Relativity

Portent

The speed of light is more fundamental than just a velocity, it is the thread that weaves space and time together. In relativity (Minkowski space), space and time are supposed to be treated on an equal footing. Yet, spacetime presents a unique symmetry/assymmetry signature: past and future break the isotropic nature of time, but left and right do not break the isotropic nature of space. From symmetry principles, timelike and spacelike causes (and their common cause variants) should be legitimate, but a priori, because of the spectar of causal paradox, they are declared verbotten. Is the obstacle contradiction, or is the obstacle that we don’t understand paradox?

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Significance

If collapse of the wave function requires the introduction of nonlinearity into quantum mechanics, but we haven’t been able to devise a scheme for how to introduce it, why are we closing off the most natural way to introduce nonlinearity - via self-reference? Perhaps we are hampered by paradigm paralysis. Is the aversion to paradox well grounded, or is it a paradigm to question?