Interesting post. If time does not exist, why do people, civilizations, planets and galaxies die?
I once read a passage from Swedenbourg, a European mystic, who stated that time does not exist in heaven. There are only changes of events. The angels and inhabitants of heaven apparently can remember all of the changes since they have attained enlightenment and immortality. Back on earth, we cannot remember well nor do we live forever. So, time is part of the manifest universe, just as the other three dimensions. Regards, John R. --- In [email protected], "coshlnx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i.e. not from a neo-Advaitin point of view since nothing exists from > that point of view. From a strictly relative point of view, Barbour > argues that time doesn't exist. As a physicist, he has to support > this by a mathematical proof or an abundance of circumstantial > evidence. > From wiki: > > Julian Barbour (born 1937) is a British physicist with research > interests in loop quantum gravity. He is the author of The End of > Time, The Discovery of Dynamics and Absolute or Relative Motion?. He > has also co-authored books with Vladimir Pavlovich Vizgin and with > Herbert Pfister. > > He holds the controversial view that time does not exist, and that > most of physics' problems arise from assuming that it does exist. He > argues that we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of > it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it. It is > all an illusion: there is no motion and no change. He argues that the > illusion of time is what we interpret through what he calls "time > capsules," which are "any fixed pattern that creates or encodes the > appearance of motion, change or history." > > Barbour lives in Oxford, England. Since receiving his Ph. D. on the > foundations of Einstein's general theory of relativity at the > University of Cologne in 1968, he has supported himself and his > family without a job in academia, working part time as a translator > to leave him ample time to think about the nature of time. >
