Ontological primacy should not be given to information but … - Julian Barbour

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Ontological primacy should not be given to information but to things, as has always been the standpoint of realists.

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.

[T]he work that I did with... has shown... time that is measured by clocks is... an average of all the changes in the universe.

Thus, even now, three and a half centuries after Galileo... it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...

Ontological primacy should not be given to information but to things, as has always been the standpoint of realists. - Julian Barbour

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