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    <p>Viv and Albrecht:</p>
    <p>1)  sorry all I know is what I can interpret from the information
      I get given my internal structure and yes I have only encountered
      the first name Viv for females , My grand daughter is an example.
      Sorry, and thanks for the correction.</p>
    <p>2) I sounds like neither of you two are willing to entertain the
      two conditions I lay out for an even playing field discussion of
      fundamental physics.</p>
    <p>On point 1 Albrecht feels without a firm objective reality,
      independent of our observations, there would be no physics and no
      need to talk further <br>
    </p>
    <p>            Viv states supernova 1 billion light years away are
      facts proven by experiment and they obviously happened independent
      of the observer, so independent objective                 reality
      is already a proven fact and there is no need to discuss it
      further<br>
    </p>
    <p>On point 2 Albrecht says including the interpretations is well
      known, it is done there is nothing new to be learned.</p>
    <p>                Viv rejects it because he is afraid I can prove
      anything if I am allowed to chose my own interpretation. Unstated
      in Viv's dismissal is the assumption that he is                
           able to prove anything he wants because he has already chosen
      the only correct interpretation.</p>
    <p>Ok so this is not the forum to discuss fundamental assumptions
      underlying our physical theories. Fine! I have no problem sticking
      to experiments, in a forum that calls itself  the "Nature of
      Light" , just thought I'd try something a bit more fundamental.</p>
    <p>So let me leave you with the following experiment. Take a
      vacation to a worm climate and in the evening go to the beach and
      lay down in the sand and look up at the sky. You will see
      thousands of points of light. It is a magnificent and awe
      inspiring spectacle. Some of you will say, "I am seeing thousands
      of stars, galaxies, and if I'm lucky perhaps a supernova or two
      that happened billions of years ago'. Others will say, "I am
      seeing interactions in my retina that I interpret in my model of
      the universe in which I've given names like stars, galaxies and
      perhaps supernova as explanations to interactions happening right
      here and now'. Some of you will feel like the stars are up there
      high above light hears away. Others will say, "the stars are down
      there and I'm hanging on the bottom of a ball with gravity pulling
      up'. Perhaps feeling a moment of panic lest the force release you
      fall into the void. As you stare longer and longer some of you
      will see patterns. A great warrior , a leaning maiden, a sparkling
      twinkle. Others will see thermal oscillations diffracting photons.
      <br>
    </p>
    <p>To which group do you belong? To which group do you think I
      belong?</p>
    <p>Well to answer my own question I would modestly suggest that I
      have had strong and deep experiences in both camps, and the one
      thing I've come to understand is that there is no right or wrong
      here, only the fact that the human Brain is a major organ that
      determines how we see things and what theory we believe to explain
      our experiences. If we do not understand the instrument with which
      we explore the world our theories are simply self consistent
      symbol structures based upon a layer of irrational assumptions. So
      to further explain the basis of my challenge I've attached a paper
      that will be published in the August issue of 'the Journal of
      Consciousness Studies. Please do not disseminate since it is
      copyrighted by the Journal and limited to research purposes, which
      this is one.</p>
    <p>I have lots to do so I'm actually thankful no one has accepted my
      proposal.</p>
    <p>Best,</p>
    <p>wolf<br>
    </p>
    <p>  <br>
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    <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 7/17/2017 7:36 PM, Viv Robinson
      wrote:<br>
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        your facts correct. Vivian was a relatively common male name
        that has been “hijacked” by women. You appear to have made the a
        priori assumption that, because some women have the name Vivian,
        all people with the name Vivian must be female. Not correct!</div>
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        style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color:
        rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Regarding my
        statement "What happens on a macro scale, happens whether anyone
        is looking or not” is accepted by most scientists. Super novae 1
        billion light years away, happen whether astronomers observe
        them or not. You need to provide evidence of how a super nova
        would change because humans observed it a billion years later.
        Using that as an example, you should show how humans observing a
        super nova changed them. Without such proof it is difficult to
        see how what you call an assumption is not supported by
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        style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color:
        rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Your points
        are not acceptable. What you are requesting is “Assume my
        statement is correct then I can prove it to you if you let me
        interpret experimental results my way”.  I am not going to try
        to stop you from doing that in the case of a super nova event
        from about one billion light years away. If your explanation is
        not sound IMHO, don’t expect a response.</div>
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      <p class="airmail_on">On 17 July 2017 at 4:46:41 PM, Wolfgang Baer
        (<a href="mailto:wolf@nascentinc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">wolf@nascentinc.com</a>)
        wrote:</p>
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              <p>TO Viv, Graham, Chip, Albrecht ... etc.</p>
              <p>I am willing to accept Viv's challenge in her 7/15/2017
                reply that states " State the science behind it. Then
                use mathematics to show that the effect of the science
                matches observation."</p>
              <p>This has been my goal all along. However to have any
                chance of acceptance I must ask for two conditions that
                will grantee a fair playing field of open minds.</p>
              <p>1) You must be able to accept the statement "What
                happens on a macro scale, happens whether anyone is
                looking or not.".(7/4/2017) as an assumption that itself
                needs proof rather than an a-priory truth <br>
              </p>
              <p>2) Experimental proof i.e. predictions match
                observations; Must allow me to include the
                interpretation of experimental results without the
                a-priory assumption #1 stated above. <br>
              </p>
              <p>If you do not agree to these two conditions then any
                theory or experimental result justifying the theory will
                be interpreted under the requirement of consistentcy
                with the a priory assumption #1 in a kind of circular
                self fulfilling logic that now new idea can ever hope to
                penetrate. In this case it would be better not to bother
                communicating on fundamental issues.</p>
              <p>Specifically Viv You state : "Newton's mechanics and
                Maxwell’s electromagnetism, form the basis of the
                physical world. Apply Newtonian mechanics to properties
                of the photon as I outlined a while ago and you get
                general relativity." I have no reference to this
                conjecture and no entry in my E-mail list from you
                addressing this approach but it describes my approach
                very well and please provide references again.</p>
              <p>If I get some agreement I will be writing a
                mathematical appendix to a book I am writing for
                Routledge Press that is intended to describe an action
                theory formulation of physics  that will reduce to  both
                quantum and classic theory and therefore be compatible
                with all experimental verification of these disciplines
                with the additional property that the conscious
                experience is explicitly included in the theory.  <br>
              </p>
              <p>best wishes</p>
              <p>Wolf<br>
              </p>
              <p><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" moz-do-not-send="true">wolf@NascentInc.com</a></pre>
              <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/16/2017 10:26 AM, Chip
                Akins wrote:<br>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thank
                      you Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I need
                      to review your work on this as well.  And compare
                      your thought to the results of the research I have
                      been doing on electric charge, fields, and
                      displacement of space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
                          General
                          [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                            moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
                          <b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Reiter<br>
                          <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 16, 2017 12:10 PM<br>
                          <b>To:</b> Nature of Light and Particles -
                          General Discussion <a
                            class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                            href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                            moz-do-not-send="true"><general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org></a><br>
                          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [General] Photon Emission
                          - Space<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:13.5pt">If anyone talks
                            about continuous absorption, explosive
                            emission, you need to include my work.  I
                            reported the only experiments that
                            demonstrate this effect at your conference;
                            a good theory also.  There was no feedback
                            from hardly anyone.  Wolf came to my lab and
                            saw it.  Do my letters reach other blog
                            members or is it filtered?   Please,  the
                            model of the photon does not allow for
                            continuous absorption.  Call it light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                            style="font-size:13.5pt">Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                            style="font-size:13.5pt">Eric Reiter  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">On
                              Sunday, July 16, 2017, 10:04:04 AM PDT,
                              Roychoudhuri, Chandra <<a
                                href="mailto:chandra.roychoudhuri@uconn.edu"
                                moz-do-not-send="true">chandra.roychoudhuri@uconn.edu</a>>
                              wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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                                  class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280E70">Chip:
                                    Excellent!</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                <p
                                  class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280E70">Thanks
                                    for contacting me on the “dipole”
                                    issue. </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                <p
                                  class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280E70">I
                                    am going to do some searching to
                                    find the latest/best article on
                                    “abrupt dipole transition in
                                    emission”, which then evolves into a
                                    classical wave packet. The other
                                    model is, “dipole quantum cup”, in
                                    absorption. However, my thoughts
                                    (expressions) on these topics are
                                    still in the process of evolving
                                    (not moving away though!).</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                <p
                                  class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#280E70">Chandra.
                                  </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> </span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                          General [<a
href="mailto:general-bounces+chandra.roychoudhuri=uconn.edu@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:general-bounces+chandra.roychoudhuri=uconn.edu@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>]
                                          <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chip
                                          Akins<br>
                                          <b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 16,
                                          2017 8:58 AM<br>
                                          <b>To:</b> 'Nature of Light
                                          and Particles - General
                                          Discussion' <<a
                                            href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>><br>
                                          <b>Subject:</b> [General]
                                          Photon Emission - Space</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Hi
                                      Chandra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">I
                                      recall you mentioning something
                                      about light being emitted or
                                      absorbed by <b>dipoles</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">My
                                      work, on electric charge as a
                                      displacement of the tensor medium
                                      of space, has been quite
                                      productive and yields remarkably
                                      accurate results.  But it seems to
                                      indicate that a dipole field may
                                      be required for the emission or
                                      absorption of energy.  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Can
                                      you elaborate on your thoughts on
                                      this topic?  <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Is
                                      there a reference to a paper where
                                      you discuss this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">This
                                      “tensor medium of space” approach
                                      explains exactly why the binding
                                      energy for hydrogen is 13.6eV, but
                                      it also suggests that there are
                                      specific requirements for
                                      radiation and absorption which go
                                      beyond the simple suggestion that
                                      “an accelerated charge radiates”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">I
                                      think that is a good thing,
                                      because it also explains why
                                      electrons in “orbit” in an atom do
                                      not continuously radiate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Chip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                          General [<a
href="mailto:general-bounces+chipakins=gmail.com@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                                            target="_blank"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">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
                                            href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                                            target="_blank"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org</a>><br>
                                          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [General]
                                          Consciousness, time etc</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                  <p
                                    class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Wolf,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Of
                                        all the various emails flying
                                        about, I had to respond
                                        immediately to this one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          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"
                                          target="_blank"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.grahameb.com/realitycheck/?p=425</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">All
                                        the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Grahame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">-----
                                          Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                      <p
                                        class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"
                                        style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                          <a
                                            href="mailto:wolf@nascentinc.com"
                                            target="_blank"
                                            title="wolf@nascentinc.com"
                                            moz-do-not-send="true">Wolfgang
                                            Baer</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                      <p
                                        class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">To:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                          <a
                                            href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                                            target="_blank"
                                            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="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Sent:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                          Sunday, July 16, 2017 7:46 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                      <p
                                        class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Subject:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                          Re: [General] JW on STR twin
                                          Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <div>
                                      <p
                                        class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                    <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Grahame;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                    <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">I
                                        agree we need to stop the ping
                                        pong. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                    <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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></span></p>
                                    <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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></span></p>
                                    <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">best<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                    <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Wolf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                    <pre><span style="color:#26282A">Dr. Wolfgang Baer<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
                                    <pre><span style="color:#26282A">Research Director<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
                                    <pre><span style="color:#26282A">Nascent Systems Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
                                    <pre><span style="color:#26282A">tel/fax 831-659-3120/0432<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
                                    <pre><span style="color:#26282A">E-mail <a href="mailto:wolf@NascentInc.com" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">wolf@NascentInc.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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                                      <p
                                        class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">On
                                          7/15/2017 9:07 AM, Dr Grahame
                                          Blackwell wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Wolf
                                            (and Chip),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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"
                                              target="_blank"
                                              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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                      </div>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">With
                                            those points in mind, I have
                                            responded, Wolf, to your
                                            comments to me, under those
                                            comments, in maroon text.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                      </div>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                      </div>
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Grahame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                          <p
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">-----
                                              Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                          <p
                                            class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"
                                            style="background:#E4E4E4"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                              <a
                                                href="mailto:wolf@nascentinc.com"
                                                target="_blank"
                                                title="wolf@nascentinc.com"
                                                moz-do-not-send="true">Wolfgang
                                                Baer</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                          <p
                                            class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">To:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                              <a
                                                href="mailto:general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org"
                                                target="_blank"
                                                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="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Sent:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                              Friday, July 14, 2017
                                              10:02 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                          <p
                                            class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Subject:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">
                                              Re: [General] JW on STR
                                              twin Paradox<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                          <p
                                            class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Chip
                                            and Graham:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Graham;
                                            First If you feel that your
                                            exchange with Albrecht was
                                            "as specifically limited to
                                            physical realities" and want
                                            to stay within the limits of
                                            your definition of physical
                                            realities and exclude how
                                            the nature of perception,
                                            and your(my) truism that
                                            perception is a tool of the
                                            conscious mind, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Graham2;
                                            Your second paragraph
                                            includes the typical words
                                            "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." 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
                                            <b>in</b> 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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                      </blockquote>
                                      <blockquote
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                                        <p
                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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:"Helvetica",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:"Helvetica",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:"Helvetica",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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </blockquote>
                                    <p
                                      class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"
                                      style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Graham
                                            4: "philosophers arguing
                                            about how many angels can
                                            dance on the point of a
                                            needle!" 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                                          class="ydpdb0fddc0yiv7825678059msonormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">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!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">G<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Best
                                            wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
                                        <p><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#26282A">Wolf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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