The End of Time
By Jeremy Butterfield. 2001
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I discuss Julian Barbour's Machian theories of dynamics, and his proposal that a Machian perspective enables one to solve the problem of time in quantum geometrodynamics (by saying that there is no time!). I concentrate on his recent book, The End of Time (1999). A shortened version will appear in The British Journal for Philosophy of Science}.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Theory and Mathematics
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In Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Christopher G. Timpson
- Edward J. Anderson
- J. Barbour
- David Wallace
- Lee Smolin
- Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
- Sabine Hossenfelder
- Stefano Liberati
In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Christopher G. Timpson
- J. Barbour
- David Wallace
- Edward J. Anderson
- Lee Smolin
- Gregg Jaeger
- Maximilian Schlosshauer
In Computational Theory and Mathematics
Citations in the corpus
- Quantum Mechanics on Spacetime I: Spacetime State Realism (2009, background): “It may well be, for instance, that talk of spatial regions is in principle eliminable in turn in favour of talk of the spatial relations between events, as in Barbour’s version of field theory (Barbour, Foster, and Ó Murchadha [2002]).”
- The case for background independence (2005, background): “Julian Barbour and I call a spacetime in which the view of each event is distinct a Leibniz spacetime.”
- Problem of time in quantum gravity (2010, background): “net of such an approach is that a concrete conditional probability object is to be computed and interpreted [this is more specic than Records Scheme B)]. Records Scheme B) The Bell{Barbour approach [53, 51, 52] (see [64] for further dierences between these authors) reinterpret Mott’s calculation [54”
- How far are we from the quantum theory of gravity (2003, background): “There are good discussions of this by Stachel[62], Barbour[63], Rovelli[64] and others[19, 65].”
- The Nature of Time (2009, background): “As I have said, I find this natural, but I shall not here describe my vision of a timeless quantum universe presented in The End of Time [5].”