Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
The Theory of Anything
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What Is It in Its Innermost Core, Holds the World Together?
i like to quote from the opening scene of gete's faust, wherewerewell, one of the early scenes where faust is in despair about the universe and what it is. And my answer, inspired by galileo, is geometry, it's incredibly non local. So if if those points, if if the distanceis between the points change as they change, those relations have got to stay valid. And that's happening non locally, as there's nothing local about that. i think you don't have to be alarmed at all about mar suggesting that distant parts of the universe are having an effect here, because geometris aready like that. The question that really counts
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