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    <p>Chip;</p>
    <p>Yes you have stated my approach almost correctly only to state
      that it is the power of our own consciousness elevates
      consciousness to the level given to it by eastern religions</p>
    <p>I would rather say " the universe each of us perceives is the
      result (the creation) of our own <strike>consciousness</strike>
      activity.  As if somehow we actually create our universe by the
      power of our own <strike>consciousness</strike> activity. <br>
    </p>
    <p>We are an activity, a process, an event that contains its own
      time ( changes) and interacts with other events on an equal basis</p>
    <p>Wolf<br>
    </p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Dr. Wolfgang Baer
Research Director
Nascent Systems Inc.
tel/fax 831-659-3120/0432
E-mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wolf@NascentInc.com">wolf@NascentInc.com</a></pre>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/16/2017 6:07 AM, Chip Akins wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Hi Wolf and Grahame<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">If I understand each of you correctly,
          there is a specific difference in your approaches.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Grahame, if you are talking about the
          universe being the consequence (made up of) a cosmic
          consciousness, I think your opinion differs from Wolf’s.  I
          may be wrong about this, hope I am.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Grahame, your approach, if I understand it,
          is also my thought regarding the possible constitution of the
          universe itself.  And in that case I would agree with you that
          it is not necessary to continually refer to that “material”
          while discussing the behavior of particles and energy.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">But, if I understand Wolf’s suggestion, the
          universe each of us perceives is the result (the creation) of
          our own consciousness.  As if somehow we actually create our
          universe by the power of our own consciousness. This is the
          approach that gives me considerable pause.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Chip<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">
                General
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org">mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dr Grahame Blackwell<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 16, 2017 5:22 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles - General
                Discussion
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"><general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org></a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Consciousness, time etc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Wolf,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Of
              all the various emails flying about, I had to respond
              immediately to this one.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">I
              really DON'T reject your contention - indeed I agree with
              it 100%!  Consciousness is the ultimate substrate, IMO -
              it's the 'ocean' in which all the 'fish' (physical
              phenomena) swim, and indeed all of those 'fish' are
              themselves woven by consciousness (mixing my metaphors a
              bit here!). More than this, time and space (spatial
              dimensions) are themselves constructs of consciousness. 
              My point is simply: accepting all of that, we don't need
              to keep referring to it (any more than we need to keep
              referring back to the breed of sheep that our sweater
              initially comes from!) in order to discuss and analyse
              physical effects.  YES, those physical effects ARE created
              and sustained by consciousness - but in a coherent and
              consistent way, subject to 'physical laws' (defined and
              given form by consciousness, sure - but we can take that
              as read without constantly referring back to it).  So we
              can reason in respect of those 'physical realities' in
              respect of the 'physical laws' that are built into them. 
              In the same way, we all agree that a log cabin is made of
              wood, which has a cellular structure; but once we have
              ascertained the properties of the wood we're using, we can
              carve it into different shapes, make roof timbers,
              structural supports etc of it without having to constantly
              remind ourselves that it originally came from a tree with
              these types of leaves and this particular cellular
              structure - though the cellular structure is crucial to
              the properties of the wood, we can take and use those
              properties 'as they turn out', without having to relate
              them constantly to that cell structure.  So it is, in my
              view, with 'space-time' properties of 'physical realities'
              (given that they are in fact constructs of constructs of
              constructs of ... ultimately, consciousness).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">With
              regard to your note in light blue, you may be surprised
              also to hear that I have for some long time held the view
              that you have expressed (I think), namely that time is the
              consequence of the experience of consciousness
              sequentially along energy lines [the issue of 'sequential'
              as a causation of time rather than a consequence is a
              difficult one, but not impossible to conceptualise, as I
              do in the following items].  You may be interested in my
              article: 'Time, Light and Consciousness', published by the
              SMN ten years ago <a
                href="http://transfinitemind.com/SMN_article.php"
                moz-do-not-send="true">http://transfinitemind.com/SMN_article.php</a> (see
              my 4th para: "time is the process of consciousness moving
              along energy lines") , also my blog post: 'Time doesn't
              exist: a step-by-step proof' <a
                href="http://www.grahameb.com/realitycheck/?p=425"
                moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.grahameb.com/realitycheck/?p=425</a> .</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Thanks
              for taking such trouble to put your ideas across.  I'm
              sure we're on the same page - just looking at that page
              from a slightly different angle.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">All
              the best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Grahame</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a
                  href="mailto:wolf@nascentinc.com"
                  title="wolf@nascentinc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">Wolfgang
                  Baer</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a
                  href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                  title="general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">general@lists..natureoflightandparticles.org</a>
                <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
                Sunday, July 16, 2017 7:46 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Re:
                [General] JW on STR twin Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <p>Grahame;<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p>I agree we need to stop the ping pong. <o:p></o:p></p>
          <p>And I have to digest "Layers of Reality" since it is an
            intriguing title and as such could reflect much of my own
            thinking.<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p>That you reject my contention that your personal conscious
            perception space underlies and always provides the aether in
            which all objects you percieve exist including the clock and
            the observer riding along with it , and therefore is in my
            opinion  missing key to understanding SRT and GRT and
            precisely relevant to your discussion with Albrecht, is for
            me sad but I assume it is because i'm not making myself
            clear. I'll try to put a better formulation together and get
            back in a few weeks. Can't help making a last comment to
            your comment in blue below.<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p>best<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p>Wolf<o:p></o:p></p>
          <pre>Dr. Wolfgang Baer<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>Research Director<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>Nascent Systems Inc.<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>tel/fax 831-659-3120/0432<o:p></o:p></pre>
          <pre>E-mail <a href="mailto:wolf@NascentInc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">wolf@NascentInc.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">On 7/15/2017 9:07 AM, Dr Grahame
              Blackwell wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Wolf
                  (and Chip),</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">First
                  and most important point: I have no wish or intention
                  to get drawn into the sort of 'email ping-pong' (aka
                  'tit-for-tat') that I've watched going on here over
                  this issue, so I'll try to address these points simply
                  with facts as I see them - no blame, no criticism,
                  just observations.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Second:
                  the fact that I propose that certain phenomena can be
                  explained in a wholly mechanistic way, without
                  reference to consciousness, doesn't mean that I don't
                  regard consciousness as having a part to play in the
                  perceptual/cognitive process - far from it.  In my
                  view consciousness is absolutely key to anything we
                  perceive or analyse; however, in my view also,
                  consciousness has provided/evolved for itself
                  perceptual and analytical tools that behave in a
                  totally consistent way; therefore, for analytical
                  purposes we can regard measurements and conclusions as
                  being 'so' (i.e. actuality) at a certain level, we
                  don't need to agonise over how consciousness has
                  provided us with them or what underlies them.  [Some
                  may find my talk: 'Layers of Reality' useful to
                  understand my take on such things: <a
                    href="http://transfinitemind.com/layers_of_reality.php"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">http://transfinitemind.com/layers_of_reality.php</a> , username:
                  xxxxx  , password: xxxxx  .]  I believe, Wolf, that if
                  you were aware of my own view on how central
                  consciousness is to the whole process, it would
                  surprise even you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">With
                  those points in mind, I have responded, Wolf, to your
                  comments to me, under those comments, </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">in
                  maroon text.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">Grahame</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal" style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a
                      href="mailto:wolf@nascentinc.com"
                      title="wolf@nascentinc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">Wolfgang
                      Baer</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <a
                      href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
title="general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
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                    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span
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                    Friday, July 14, 2017 10:02 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Re:
                    [General] JW on STR twin Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              <p>Chip and Graham:<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p>Chip: First I would like to agree with your agreement
                regarding Special relativity: "But I do agree that
                Special Relativity, as written and discussed by Einstein
                himself, has a fundamental paradoxical logical
                inconsistency, which cannot be explained away by layers
                of additional “interpretation” of his theory." This was
                my original intent. First 1) to show that
                inconsistencies exist in SRT , second 2) to show that
                GRT was one avenue of development that utilizes gravity
                and acceleration to address the problems in SRT and to
                forward our understanding of gravity, and thirdly 3) to
                open the door for new directions. I did not anticipate
                getting blind sided by alternative interpretations that
                then did not further the discussion into step two and
                three. At least not in a step by step logical way.<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p>Chip second: "When several “observers” read the data
                then collected and communicate about that data, it is
                clear to us that we have all viewed the same data.  It
                is therefore quite ridiculous to assume that we, the
                “observers”, had a notable effect on the outcome of the
                automated experiment weeks earlier." It is ridiculous
                only within the context of an Aristotelian framework of
                reality in which one assumes there is a thing called
                "the same data". What if Plato, Kant and to some extent
                quantum theory is correct and the data no matter how or
                when it is viewed is and always has been in the eye of
                the beholder? Then the observer does influence the
                outcome of the experiment because for him the data he
                sees<b> is reality</b> and that reality will depend upon
                how he sees it.<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><o:p> </o:p></p>
              <p>The question I ask myself is can a useful and
                quantitative physics be built without  "the same data"
                assumption. In philosophy this is called the "naive
                reality" assumption and Aristotle's view that we are
                looking out through the windows of our senses at an
                objective real world has won the day for 500 years and
                it seem ridiculous to challenge all the greats who have
                come to this conclusion. But that is what I am doing.<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><o:p> </o:p></p>
              <p>Graham; First If you feel that your exchange with
                Albrecht was "<span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">as
                  specifically limited to physical realities" </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">and
                  want to stay within the limits of your definition of
                  physical realities and exclude how </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">the
                  nature of perception, and your(my) truism that
                  perception is a tool of the conscious mind, </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">effects
                  and to a large extent determines our physical theories
                  (which I believe is at the center of understanding
                  both SRT and GRT and why they are incompatible with
                  quantum theory)  then I am sorry I interjected my
                  comments into your discussion. Please keep taking and
                  I'll just listen quietly.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">Wolf,
                  I am by no means dismissing your observations on
                  consciousness as irrelevant to the issue of perception
                  - far from it.  I'm simply observing that the
                  phenomena that Albrecht and I have been discussing can
                  be explained fully satisfactorily in terms of
                  mechanistic interactions, without resorting to how
                  consciousness interprets those interactions.  In
                  simple terms, using my idea of 'layers (or levels) of
                  reality' we are simply discussing 'facts' as presented
                  to our brains for analysis - trusting that
                  consciousness uses a consistent, coherent and useful
                  form in which to convey those 'facts' (i.e.deeper
                  realities) to our mental processing circuits, given
                  that consciousness and those processing circuits are
                  all on the same side!  In this respect, introducing
                  consideration of how consciousness has processed those
                  deeper realities in order to present those 'facts' to 
                  our brains in a more digestible format is to introduce
                  an unnecessary and (IMO) unhelpful level of complexity
                  to this issue.  Certainly there is a time and a place
                  for discussion of consciousness - but (again IMO) this
                  is not it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">However
                  I find it very important to have a polite foil to
                  discuss what I believe is the greatest of the grand
                  challenges confronting science - i.e. the unification
                  of subjective and subjective experience into a new
                  integrated theory not of every thing, but of every
                  action.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">I
                  agree that that is indeed very important - but it's
                  not the subject of the conversation that Albrecht and
                  I were having - that's all I was trying to say.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p>Graham2; Your second paragraph includes the typical
                words "<span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">an
                  observer or measuring device moving with that object
                  will draw conclusions (by human inference or
                  solid-state logic) that the object is at rest (and
                  therefore they are also) - wholly as a consequence of
                  their/its own physical makeup being altered by that
                  state of motion.  Likewise that moving observer/device
                  will assess an objectively static object (such as an
                  atom) as being in a state of motion, for exactly the
                  same reason." </span><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
                  key here is "observer or measuring device moving with"
                  I am only talking about an observer. A measuring
                  device only relays information someone must be at the
                  end of the chain to realize the information. The
                  observer is </span><b><span
                    style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">in</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> the
                  measuring device, he cannot get out. He receives
                  information and translates it into his mental display.
                  Both the apparently stationary object "moving with the
                  observer" and any apparently  moving object in his
                  display will be subject to the Lonrentz
                  transformations BECAUSE these appearances are always
                  created in the medium of that observers mind. I
                  believe it is a grave error to treat the properties of
                  the mind as an objective independent reality. But
                  everyone does it until Now!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">A
                  measuring device provides information in a format
                  determined by, and so capable of assimilation by, an
                  observer.  In that respect I fully agree that the
                  observer (or a former observer who constructed the
                  device) is <strong><span
                      style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">in</span></strong>
                  the measuring device, and what the observer takes away
                  from that device is as much in the perception of that
                  observer as it is in the device itself.  However, I
                  repeat: the consciousness that constructed the device
                  is the <strong><span
                      style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">same</span></strong>
                  consciousness as that which is making use of the
                  measurements it provides - and both are working to the
                  same aim.  So, just as one who knitted a sweater and
                  one who wears the sweater are both well aware of the
                  intrinsic composition of the sweater (interwoven
                  strands of wool, taken from a sheep then cleaned and
                  dyed and spun), but neither need to be troubled by
                  that detail when selling or wearing the sweater,
                  neither consciousness nor the brain need to agonise
                  over <strong><span
                      style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">how</span></strong>
                  those data came to be served up in that form, they can
                  simply be processed as facts - at the level of logical
                  reasoning (again, see my piece on 'layers of
                  reality').  The question of 'how those facts came to
                  be in that form' is of great interest - but it's a
                  separate question from the one currently at hand.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3333FF">I
              do not understand your logic. When referring to an
              observer riding along with the clock one assumes that
              observer measures the same reality as the conceiver of the
              thought experiment put into the space in which the clock
              and the observer is conceived. This equating the ride
              along observer's observations with the "reality" built
              into the thought experimenter's space is an example of the
              "naive reality' assumption. Einstein assumed his
              perceptive space was reality and of course the speed of
              light in that reality would be what ever it is "c" , and
              all observers must get the same result when they measure
              any quantity in that reality because that is the reality
              and there is only one correct one. There is nothing
              inconsistent or illogical about SRT or GRT once one
              accepts the assumption that the speed of light is an
              independent of the observer objective fact. That is the
              assumption I question and it is quite relevant to your
              discussion with Albrecht. </span><br>
            <br>
            <o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Graham3:
                  I have no disagreement with your reciprocity argument.
                  I only wanted to point out that in both the cases the
                  human observer experiences his motion relative to the
                  radiation source in his own display space.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">Agreed. 
                  That's exactly why it's essential to consider what
                  effect a state of motion has on that display space, in
                  purely physical terms.  This is what I have done.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Graham
                  4: "</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:navy">philosophers
                  arguing about how many angels can dance on the point
                  of a needle!" </span><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">makes
                  perfect sense to people who believe in god, heaven,
                  and angels as the stake your life on it truth.
                  Physicists arguing about what two measuring objects
                  will conclude about each other also makes perfect
                  sense to people who believe observers can ride along 
                  with them and see them as independent external objects
                  without recognizing that they (the observers) are
                  doing the seeing that creates these objects.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">Wolf,
                  there is the world of difference between 100%
                  hypothetical entities such as angels and 100% physical
                  experiences such as travelling alongside an object and
                  taking measurements of it.  Assuredly the latter is a
                  level of perception that is unquestionably quite a few
                  layers above that of ultimate reality (if such
                  exists), however it is also something that falls
                  within the remit of physical experience and is
                  therefore fair game for physical analysis (even if we
                  accept - as I do - that what we are analysing is an
                  effect of an effect of an effect ... it is still
                  self-consistent and so susceptible to analysis -
                  unlike angels)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I'll
                  try to get a copy of the relativity myth , sounds like
                  a good starting point for my 3d) effort introduced in
                  paragraph 1 above.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">Wolf,
                  I'm most flattered that you consider that my
                  culmination of 20 years' work may be a good starting
                  point for one of your hypotheses.  As long as you give
                  due attribution for every point of mine that you make
                  use of, you can be as condescending as you like!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:maroon">G</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best
                  wishes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
              <p><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Wolf</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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