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zeynel · 5177 days ago · link · · parent · post: A thought-experiment about matter, space, and time.
>For this experiment, you must consider that a relationship is not proof of existence, but is existence itself.
But this is not the fundamental notion that we must accept to go along with your experiment. >To begin, imagine one particle and nothing else. Materialism is the fundamental assumption of your experiment. You implicitly assume that the world is material. As I wrote here http://science1.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/the-world-is/ the world depends on your initial assumption. You assume that the world is material and there exists absolutely indivisible particles. Yet, not only there are no experimental evidence for this Newtonian atomic materialism, but all observations suggest that we are living in a matterless world. Even physicists themselves slowly coming to this conclusion in their pathetically tortuous ways.