[I]f you imagine two NOWs... there will be some difference … - Julian Barbour

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[I]f you imagine two NOWs... there will be some difference between them, and if you work out some weighted average of all of that difference... you can call that... the amount of time between them. ...[T]his has nothing to do with some substance... It's just difference between those two things. ...[T]his is the quantity that is... being measured by my watch...

Julian Barbour

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Julian Barbour (born in 1937) is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.

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Carlo Rovelli Arthur Eddington Hans Christian von Baeyer Erwin Schrödinger Max Tegmark

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If you could freeze the camera now and... show me as I am, and all the atoms... and... the whole universe... like a snapshot, the would be... a NOW.

Probabilities without things are... nothings.

Information theory would never have got off the ground if structured things—configurations—did not exist.

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