/sci/ - Science & Math

The most obvious refutation of determinism is in the fact that time passes, rather than existing eternally. Let's understand why: Suppose you have a mathematical theory of everything for the universe, we'll call it X. X is a superdeterministic theory, that like encodes even the choice of measurement one is going to perform in any quantum experiment. This ensures that no matter what you do, your percieved effects of non-local phenomena only appear spooky, were predictably there all along. This theory X has a solution state for the final state of the universe. This is the block theory model of the universe, consistent with special relativity, and describes each event existing in spacetime. Whether or not you choose to compute the final state of the universe, depends upon you, but nevertheless the solution exists. Just like 2+2=4, exists even though nobody bothered to check it, it will exist and continue to be true because it is reasonable. Similarly, X is reasonable, and the universe is reasonable, so the end state of the universe should exist regardless if the universe chooses to ride along or not. The fact is, X never tells you to evolve. X can never describe an arrow of time, because whatever state evolves into a next state is already encoded in X, therefore it is a matter of our knowledge whether we want to know that or not. If the universe is identical to X, then the universe never evolves, simply exists like a 4D geometric shape, like a crystal ball lying in some of 5D space. Seeing from the outside you could never tell anything is flowing, and this contradicts our experience of time, we see it flowing. So X and a likewise theory of everything cannot exist in principle. If it does, it cannot explain time.