Saturday, 27 September 2025

Against Deterministic Spacetime Diagrams

Spacetime diagrams, worldlines, and trajectory plots are invaluable tools, but they carry a hidden trap: the implication that events are pre-determined paths through a static manifold. In reality, what appears as a “trajectory” is the actualisation of relational potentials — a pattern emerging from interactions, constraints, and probabilities. Depicting these as deterministic lines fosters a mechanistic illusion, concealing quantum indeterminacy, relational emergence, and the fluidity of actualisation. Reality is not drawn in lines; it unfolds in relational patterns.

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