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There is one metalaw of science: it cannot exist without structured things. d variety is the ground of being. That is what gives content to both scie… - Julian Barbour
" "There is one metalaw of science: it cannot exist without structured things. d variety is the ground of being. That is what gives content to both science and life.
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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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[I]n 1898... Henri Poincaré wrote... "On the Measure of Time" and he said... there are two fundamental problems to do with time. One... with the definition of duration... What does it mean to say that a second today is the same... [H]e said there's another issue... [not] so widely recognized. ...[H]ow do you define simultaneity at spatially separated points?
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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...
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