Kiwi Time Genius

[Occhidiangela]

Thanks for the link, it looks as though the peer review process is still a work in progress. There were differing levels of enthusiasm expressed by the critics.

What he says here:

"According to both ancient and present day physics, objects in motion have determined relative positions. Indeed, the physics of motion from Zeno to Newton and through to today take this assumption as given. Lynds says that the paradoxes arose because people assumed wrongly that objects in motion had determined positions at any instant in time, thus freezing the bodies motion static at that instant and enabling the impossible situation of the paradoxes to be derived. "There's no such thing as an instant in time or present moment in nature. It's something entirely subjective that we project onto the world around us. That is, it's the outcome of brain function and consciousness."

Is a paraphrase of something I have been saying for years:

"There is no such thing as Time, it is a tool we invented to measure the continuing flow of events."

I can't prove my assertion, and it appears from the comments of one of his referees that neither can he. Paradoxes sometimes suffer from weakness in definition.

That said, it looks as though some folks a bit smarter than I see great promise in his work.

As to this comment:

He is theorising in an area that most people think is settled. Most people believe there are a succession of moments and that objects in motion have determined positions."

The Universe is an analog system, a continuum, and as such, is at times poorly modeled by digitization. The flip side of that is digitization and slicing sure as hell helps us "get" what is going on better than the next best tool!

It will be interesting to see where his ideas lead. For his sake, I hope it is not into a beaker of matter trying to replicate Cold Fusion.