A Defense of the Reality of Time

Re:A Defense of the Reality of Time by nsparrow on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @04:42PM (#14353137)

If you are interested in an opposing viewpoint, the British physicist Julian Barbour has been trying to work out the math for a timeless physics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barbour

He lays out his theory in his book, The End of Time.

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Re:A Defense of the Reality of Time by pyedpiper on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @05:21PM (#14353396)

side note: Wiki mobile view renders quite nicely on a desktop for reading

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Re:A Defense of the Reality of Time by woodandsteel on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:21PM (#14364212)

"The idea that the block universe is static drives me crazy. What is it to say that something is static? It’s to say that as time goes on, it doesn’t change. But it’s not that the block universe is in time; time is in it. "

I like how this guy thinks.

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Re:A Defense of the Reality of Time by veli_joza on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:18AM (#14357351)

Agreed, I've been using it as default for some time now. It's clean with no noise and far less distracting than standard page.

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