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Episode 31: Unsolved Problems in Physics Part 2 - Clocks, Blocks, and Eternalism

The Theory of Anything

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Is Determinism a Deterministic Theory?

Time past, present and a future all already exist in this way of looking at physics. Determinism does give another of yiou two, as i'll show you in julian barber's formulation of generalativity. The more primitive stuff in his theory are basically shapes. There is an element that is not relational, and at has to do with the size of the universe which also kind of gives meaning to the expansion of the universe or stuff like that. Now, when space doesn't really solve universal size, he solves that problem using the same sort of variational principle we talked about earlier. In his theory, there is actually an absolute simultaneity in his theory, so

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