[MD] Time

[Ant McWatt]

David,

I had a look at the review of Smolin's book by Adam Frank that you posted the link for below.

I don't know if you've ever read the articles about time and the MOQ at robertpirsig.org but as a contributor for both of these papers, I eventually realised that time hasn't existed as a working concept/law for physicists since Einstein invented space-time about a hundred years ago.  

It sounds to me... (wait for it!) that Smolin is conflating a concept by intuition (sensed time) with a concept by postulation (time/space-time as a law of physics).  In other words, his book is full of nonsense (but probably without the wit, charm and imagination of Lewis Carroll!)

Best wishes,

Ant


David M noted May 4th 2013:
 
> Hi all
> 
> Interesting review of Smolin's latest book,
> going in the right direction I feel:
> 
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/05/02/180037757/is-time-real
> 
> Regards
> David M



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