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theoretical symmetry
How do you tell the difference of expanding outwards and contracting inwards?
Part of my intuition tells me that it would be impossible to tell the difference.
If you are on the natural numbers heading from zero to infinity I might say that is expanding outwards.
So if you are sitting at zero and moving to negative infinity then that would seem like contracting inwards. However you would leave the positive numbers behind and have negative numbers ahead but since you are moving forward it would seem natural to label those numbers as positive and the others as negative.
So the forward arrow of time would imply that the numbers covered would always appear as the natural numbers.
The larger part of my intuition tells me that I could be way far off and not even know it without checking with PF.
Thoughts?
Part of my intuition tells me that it would be impossible to tell the difference.
If you are on the natural numbers heading from zero to infinity I might say that is expanding outwards.
So if you are sitting at zero and moving to negative infinity then that would seem like contracting inwards. However you would leave the positive numbers behind and have negative numbers ahead but since you are moving forward it would seem natural to label those numbers as positive and the others as negative.
So the forward arrow of time would imply that the numbers covered would always appear as the natural numbers.
The larger part of my intuition tells me that I could be way far off and not even know it without checking with PF.
Thoughts?