[A NOW] has no duration. ...[I]t's absolutely instantaneous… - Julian Barbour

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[A NOW] has no duration. ...[I]t's absolutely instantaneous. There is no thickness to it. Nothing changes. ...So these s, in one sense, are truly eternal, because they never change, and on the other hand, because nothing changes, they are experienced as a flash. ...[It]'s a nice contradiction... [T]he eternal is experienced as a flash, because nothing changes.

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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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