Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
The Theory of Anything
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Is There a Non Local Type Connection?
Inertial frames of reference never really get an answer. Why can't we, according to relativity, say that the universe around it is just rotating around it? Er, let me start off by saying that geometrical relationships are non local. I mean, this is a fact about euclidian geometry. So you have. There are things the are measuring rods. And i call these gifts of nature. You wouldn't find them anywhere near the big bang in time. But er, shall we say, surveyors in egypt, three, four thousand years ago, could take bamboo canes and they could survey fields. It's entirely possible.
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