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Barbour is criminally underrated as a physics author. He’s published a lot of interesting ideas regarding the role of time, or lack thereof, in modern theories!
by foundry27 2y ago
Barbour is criminally underrated as a physics author. He’s published a lot of interesting ideas regarding the role of time, or lack thereof, in modern theories! (The End of Time, and its treatment of Causality as a direct substitute for time in any future theory of everything, was very fun)
- Xmd5a 2y agoSomeone came up with a very similar theory (two arrows of time diverging from the same point, the big bang). They even gave their theory the same name: Janus. https://januscosmologicalmodel.com/januspoint https://januscosmologicalmodel.com/januspoint There are other players concerned with similar ideas: - Negative mass, Farnes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fluid - Mirror-image universe going backwards in time from the big bang, Turok: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734230-100-neil-turok-on-the-case-for-a-parallel-universe-going-backwards-in-time/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734230-100-neil-tur...
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