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A Hole at the Heart of Physics


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[plain]A Hole at the Heart of Physics[/plain] - [plain]Physicists can't seem to find the time, literally. Can philosophers help?[/plain]

 

For most people, the great mystery of time is that there never seems to be enough of it. If it is any consolation, physicists are having much the same problem. The laws of physics contain a time variable, but it fails to capture key aspects of time as we live it -- notably, the distinction between past and future. And as researchers try to formulate more fundamental laws, the little t evaporates altogether. Stymied, many physicists have sought help from an unfamiliar source...

 

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Pretty neat to see scholars from two disciplines like Physics and Philosophy work together. I'd never heard of the Wheeler-DeWhit equation, which led me to learn about the "Problem of Time" that the article discusses, just not by that particular phrase. Maybe the Problem of Time is why many of us are here - not just figuratively but literally,
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