ZENO’s ARROW PARADOX
I suggest that Zeno's arrow paradox is more easily explained
if you imagine that in our universe, there are three dimensions of time, not
one.
The paradox of Zeno suggests that at any point in the arrows
flight, it must be stationary, having already arrived at that point no further
motion is required. With no duration scheduled for this momentary stop, the
arrow can not advance, leaving it stuck mid flight. Some say that there is good
reason to assume that the flight never takes place at all, a point taken up by
the proponents of Biocentricism. We could now identify the problem as the same
as regards the very meaning of the 'present', the here and now.
Where does the 'present' lie if the future extends from ...well, infinity to now and the past begins
immediately and extends back to the 14 bn years of the universe's age. Where
lies the present, lodged as it is between the non-existing point at the end of
the future and the beginning of the past? Does the 'present' even exist in reality?
see diagram.
Using this conventional thinking, the arrow has the past
behind it, the future in front of it and no room for the becalmed arrow stuck
in the present. So why does the arrow keep flying?
The remedy is to think in three dimensions of time as Martin
Heideggar did in the 19/20th century when he argued that everything could be
explained with reference to the three aspects of time, the past, the present
and the future.
'Real' time is the 'present'. We, and all forms of life
exist solely in the present, 'real' time.
'Unreal' time represents the past. We can perceive the past
because it was once the 'present' and can recall it with memory.
'Imaginary' time represents the future. Although we can have
no 'present' without the future it doesn't, in fact, exist. It never has and
never will.
The arrow, according to the Davies Hypothesis https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HU1H7SA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2 only flies in 'real' time, the present, and because new time is
being continuously created as the universe expands, so the present also is
continuously renewed. see diagram. The arrow keeps flying.
In the same manner, the Davies Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpThiz2UeBeEI9MwGjChZ04j8XulU78uZ
explains some of the mysteries of quantum mechanics such as
conjugate spin, entanglement, the two-slit experiment and Schrödinger's Cat.
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