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Oops, 1 should read:

1. E1 occurs AFTER E2 if E1 lies within the future light-cone of E2, and vice versa.

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Oh one more thing to add... the flaws in the arguments for the Block Universe (BU) can be summed up this way: BU proponents substituted my statement 2 above:

(2). If E1 lies outside the light-cones of E2 (i.e. the space-time interval between E1 and E2 is space-like), the order of occurrence of E1 and E2 is INDETERMINATE, i.e. SR has nothing to say about it.

with this one:

(2BU). If E1 lies outside the light-cones of E2, then E1 EXISTS (or is REAL) with respect to E2.

but this is not what SR says at all! SR says NOTHING about the existence or reality of E1 when it's outside the light-cones of E2. Replacing the incorrect assumption (2BU) with the correct statement (2) and the BU arguments crumble...

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Real quality arguments there! But both are correct , if you ask me: the special relativity standpoint derives from the motion of massive body as observed from certain rest frame , while the quantum mechanics describe the behaviour of such a body's constituents within space-time continuum. Dr. Petkov's innovation is the 4 dimensional worldtubes while that of Dr. Ming is the 3N- dimensionality of such worlds, both of which depart substantially from contemporary thinking.

Yet both elaborate on each other, just like general relativity describes the simultaneaous motion of all massive bodies , creating space,time and gravitation.

I find it shocking that such important ideas as those described Drs. Petkov's and Ming's could have been ignored or suppressed for so long. To what end? It is time science took its leadership role seriously

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