He even consoled a friend's widow by saying that "people like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".For time to be "real", in Mr Smolin's sense, it cannot be relative.
(A purely mechanical being cannot reason; space must be Euclidean; an effect cannot be greater than its cause; every event is determined; temporal succession cannot be relative).
He takes it as self-evident that the existence of the world cannot be relative and he does not show that the opposite assumption is self-refuting.
If it is said that moral judgments lack truth-value (beyond the claim of minimalism), then there cannot be relative truth-value in the sense that moral relativists usually intend (though it might be contended that there is a sense in which there could still be justification).
Although receivers cannot be relatives of judges or get more than one appointment a year, under current practice those restrictions do not apply to the lawyers and other professionals they hire.
Important as this study was, it cannot illuminate how important penis preferences are relative to other preferences -- such as for muscular torsos or for taller men.
The states of the experimental arrangement cannot be merely relative to other experimental arrangements, on pain of infinite regress; and so these have to be described by classical physics.
He also considered sentences of more complex logical structures, but nothing hinges upon their use that cannot be addressed relative to an example of the simplest possible kind.
Thus, markers falling within any 4 cR5000 or 600 Kb stretch cannot be ordered relative to one another with high confidence and, consequently, are reported as co-localized on the map.
However, visual assessment remains subjective to the experience of the investigator, as his impression on brightness and contrast variations are relative and cannot be compared to other subsequent investigations.
