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The concept of time - arrow, pattern or both?
According to the Special and also the General Theory of Relativity
time has to be considered in the broader context of spacetime. The
latter is 4-dimensional structure of events. There does not exist ...
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The concept of time - arrow, pattern or both?
Here’s an excerpt of what Robert Lawrence Kuhn has to say about time:
“To many physicists, while we experience time as psychologically real, time is not fundamentally real. At the deepest foundations ...
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The concept of time - arrow, pattern or both?
Time is neither an arrow nor a pattern. According to our current best mainstream theories of physics, time is a dimension in a four-dimensional spacetime. I cannot begin to imagine how you might ...
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