A Mock Debate on Time with JULIAN BARBOUR AND TIM MAUDLIN

http://fqxi.org Julian Barbour and Tim Maudlin argue their opposite position at the FQXi SETTING TIME ARIGHT conference.

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• JULIAN
• BARBOUR
• TIM
• MAUDLIN
• fqxi
• UNIVERSE
• TIME

[Ziplock9000]

I can't find any value or information in this video. Maybe I was expecting a much more concrete debate.

[TheDarkPrince24]

THAT GUY AT THE BOTTOM LEFT IS JUST DISTRACTING!

[msPacMondrian]

Tim looks like he has to go pee.

[ScalarPhotonZ]

It's interesting that Brian Pitts says in one of his conference papers:

"While Barbour reads his project as the elimination of time (which A-theorists will not like), along the way he provides a sort of first-principles derivation of a theory very similar to GTR empirically, if not identical, and yet containing absolute simultaneity. It seems worth considering whether an A-theorist might adopt part of Barbour's program, while rejecting his claim to eliminate time."

[zazeify]

@Ziplock9000 hence the word "mock" in the title.

[colin8696908]

the fact that you can manipulate time proves it exist's.

[TimeEinstein]

Time is not an illusion as Julian says. Time is real, time is a numerical sequence of change we measure with clocks.

Yours Amrit, Space Life Institute, Slovenia

[Ziplock9000]

@PyROphantasie On reflection, I think I expected too much. ;o). I am resiting the urge to talk about tha wider issue of Physics needing (and possibly getting) a renaissance.

[PyROphantasie]

@Ziplock9000 They were arguing for the opposite positions that they are actually for, which is why it's a "Mock" debate, I would imagine much better arguments if they actually argued for what they believed in.