Abstract

The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. Time dilation is a phenomenon in physics, specifically in Einstein's theory of relativity, where time passes at different rates for observers who are in relative motion or who are in different gravitational fields. Experimental evidence verifies that time dilation can affect radioactive decay rates. Individual radioactive decay events being inherently random are fundamentally uncaused meaning lacking a deterministic prior trigger. If one counted the decay events in two equally weighted blocks of the same radioactive elements that were isotopically similar, where one block remains stationary and the other is sent out at high speed in a rocket ship, over time the number of decay events for the stationary block would significantly exceed the number of decay events for the moving block due to time dilation. The effect of the two radioactive blocks possessing different numbers of decay events is not the result of any physical causal interaction. The presence of probabilistic events within a moment of time (like radioactive decay) creates a logical contradiction, if the present moment is solely responsible for causing the next moment in a deterministic way. Within the framework of a predetermined static block universe, the contradiction dissolves because the future is already determined and the relationship between temporal slices is not one of cause and effect in the sense of observable physical interactions.