Deleet comments on Timeless Physics - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 May 2008 09:09AM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 30 August 2013 02:10:00PM 1 point [-]

I wouldn't go so far as to say you invented it, but reinvented seems appropriate.

Comment author: Deleet 04 November 2013 10:11:02AM 1 point [-]

Can you point to someone else who invented it before me? 'Reinvented' implies 'invented' in any case.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 04 November 2013 10:02:40PM 1 point [-]

It seems like it's... hmm. I guess this is different from what I thought it was originally.

Comment author: shminux 04 November 2013 10:12:28PM 0 points [-]

Nothing as formal as a notation, but a standard reply of an expert to a novice's question "What happened before the Big Bang?" is "Why do you assume that there must [always] be a "before"?" is basically the same thing.

Comment author: Deleet 10 January 2014 01:46:30PM 0 points [-]

Yes, but it is not a formal system, and it's a wonder no one else (afaik) did a formal system for questions and answers.