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300 | Solo: Does Time Exist?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Nature of Time: Between Physics and Philosophy

This chapter examines the philosophical and scientific views on time, particularly contrasting eternalism and presentism. It explores the implications of Newtonian physics, relativity, and quantum mechanics on our understanding of time, including the concept of entropy and the relationship between gravity and time itself. Through discussions of frameworks like the Poincaré Recurrence Theorem and the Boltzmann brain problem, it challenges our conceptions of time, urging a reconsideration of its fundamental nature within the evolving landscape of theoretical physics.

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