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Caprinardo Delirio
03-19-2006, 08:48 AM
i paste this from amazon:

Matthew Watkins found errors in the theory:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/autopsy.html

John Sheliak worked with Watkins objection and found that the theory could be corrected, and indeed it became even more accurate!
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/sheliak/

Lowlight
03-19-2006, 09:23 AM
thanks for that, ive been lookin for that info! Does anyone know if there have been anymore critiques or appraisals/corrections since these were written?

sidecross
03-19-2006, 12:06 PM
You, lowlight, might want to look at the book Gödel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Gödel Universe by Palle Yourgrau.

The premise of the book is time and the possibility of past, present, and future could not be absolute in a curved time space continuum where time travel would eradicate McKenna’s time wave theory which McKenna always said was a possibility.

Below is a quote from the books premise:

“Shaughan Lavine, University of Arizona
"Time flows. What is past is real, while what is future is not yet real. Gödel Meets Einstein demonstrates that modern mathematical physics, especially relativity theory, is incompatible with those simple ideas, that the incompatibility needs to be taken seriously, and that standard dissolutions of the incompatibility fail. It analyzes Gödel's fascinating views on this problem, showing that Gödel's work on relativity is a part of the same philosophical program as is his more widely celebrated incompleteness results."