There is nothing in between... [NOWs]. Each are separate sn… - Julian Barbour

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There is nothing in between... [NOWs]. Each are separate snapshots. ...These [real photographs] ...are not changed by ...reversing the order ...It may be convenient for ...for the way we think about the world and for ordering our experiences, to suppose that these come in a certain order; but ...the picture is not changed... the snapshot is... self-contained.

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About Julian Barbour

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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I find no reason to reverse the standard assumption of physics... what we experience can be explained by the assumption of an external world governed by law.

Wheeler argued that anything physical... derives its... existence... from discrete detector-elicited information-theoretic answers to yes or no quantum binary choices: bits.

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

There is nothing in between... [NOWs]. Each are separate snapshots. ...These [real photographs] ...are not changed by ...reversing the order ...It ma… - Julian Barbour

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