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Originally Posted by Doctordick
That is a pretty broad statement. Do you actually think you can prove it or is it merely an opinion?  |
Which part of the statement? The idea that if GR cannot be quantized because past knowledge lets you know future knowledge then this implies Newton cannot be quantized, or the fact that you CAN quantize Newton?
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No, they certainly do not! Newtonian physics does not consider time to be a coordinate of the geometry. One would think that someone as versed in modern physics as yourself would be well aware of that fact.
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You'll forgive a vagueness of language. Your claim was that the deterministic nature of the theory (i.e. if we know the past, we can know the future) is the reason that GR cannot be quantized. I was speaking of this particular feature of time (knowing the past lets you know the future) that the two theories share. I did not mean to imply that time was exactly the same in each.
-Will
