Q&A: Relativity, Time as a Dimension, and Free Choice
Relativity, Time as a Dimension, and Free Choice
Question
Hello Rabbi, I assume someone has asked this before—I just couldn’t find it.
According to the Rabbi’s approach as presented in the lectures on free will and choice, namely that God does not know because the information itself has not yet been created—doesn’t that contradict our understanding from relativity, according to which time is a dimension and therefore there are in fact coordinates within it—even, for example, for the year 2050? In other words, the dimension of time exists and we move through it? Unless we say that the coordinate exists in some kind of abstract world of time, but not “really”… I would be happy for clarification, thank you very much.
P.S.
There is a distinction between the Rabbi’s approach and the Raavad’s approach, so that the Raavad is not caught in this contradiction. The Raavad speaks about the Creator’s knowledge as not existing, whereas the Rabbi spoke about the information as not existing.
I’d appreciate an answer, thank you!
Answer
I elaborated on this at length in a series of columns devoted to the topic. See there; in the talkbacks as well there is a long discussion of these points too. See columns 299, 301–303.
Okay, thanks