On 04 Oct 2013, at 20:00, meekerdb wrote:
On 10/4/2013 7:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Physical time, on the contrary is most plausibly a quantum notion,
and should normally emerge (assuming comp) from the interference of
all computations + the stable first person (plural) points of view.
I don't think physical time is even a single concept. There is "t"
that goes in the equations, there is a general relativistic time-
like killing vector, there is the direction of increase of local
entropy, there is expansion of the universe,... A lot of
interesting questions in physics arise from studying how these
relate to one another.
I agree. Here by physical time I was thinking of the "t" in the time
dependent Schroedinger equation. It might be, already in physics, a
dispensable parameter (like in DeWitt-Wheeler equation H = 0).
All notions of time must be recovered from 0, 1, 2, 3, ... + addition
+ multiplication (+ the points of view, but they are derived).
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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