Timeline for How to understand Carlo Rovelli's notion that time "does not exist"?
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| Jul 15, 2018 at 12:52 | answer | added | Prof. Legolasov | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 0:02 | comment | added | Michael B. Heaney | I think the scientific concept that Nature is timeless originated with Minkowski's 1907 spacetime interpretation of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Special relativity implied that Nature is really four-dimensional, so it exists at all spaces and all times. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 23:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/1015019966624681984 | ||
| Jul 5, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | user198207 | And a related paper from 20 years ago: xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9609002. Personally, I think this is a chat room question. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 20:31 | comment | added | AccidentalFourierTransform | A start, wikipedia: Relational quantum mechanics. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 20:29 | history | edited | Mark Foskey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 5, 2018 at 20:26 | comment | added | enumaris | It is difficult to tell what exactly he means based on the description in the second link (I did not read the first link, it's a bit long). The equations in QM and QFT both have time as parameters in e.g. the wave function $\Psi=\Psi(\vec{r},t)$, so he must be talking about some effort at quantizing gravity. Unfortunately, I can not discern which of the myriad efforts currently underway is being referred to. | |
| Jul 5, 2018 at 20:05 | history | asked | Mark Foskey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |