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

The Theory of Anything

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The Evolution of the Solar System

In barber's universe, all that exists are configurations of the universe. As long as you have an isolated, approximately isolated system in a universe, you can use that to get a clock. Define a a clock and a and that will be enough to give you to meaningfully define the evolution of that system. So the system could be the entire solar system. See how the clock's emerged out of our theory. So time is emergent. And guess what? Time has disappeared. If you ignore that there is actually an evolution of the system.

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