[I]n 1898... Henri Poincaré wrote... "On the Measure of Tim… - Julian Barbour

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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?

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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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.

Poincaré clearly posed these two problems and... seven years later... independently... Einstein and Poincaré... solved... the problem of defining definition at spatially separated points...

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.

[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 defi… - Julian Barbour

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