Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
The Theory of Anything
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Observing the Cosmological Red Shift
The way students should be tooflemits nothing like what high school physics is like. And te they don't even get to know muchthey study in a very different way. So when we look at, say, the cosmological red shift, would it be correct to say that then we interpret them as the changi the shapes changing? Ah, well, first of all, the observation is in terms of shapes. That's really how reality changes. Certainly, if the universe is a self contained dynamical system. We are just absolutely pinpointing exactly what the universiy does. Of course, this is the classical universe described by classical dynamics,. Not we're not talking here about
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