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Is time an illusion?
Great Mysteries of Physics
Is the Future Written?
I think that the language we have really places quite strong restrictions on how we think about things and we may not even realize that. I think, for example, this is very often talk about things in physics in causal terms. But causation as a concept is very strongly tied to this idea of sort of the flow of time. You know, causation is the past causes the future. And those sort of causal asymmetries don't really seem to be present in fundamental physics. This sort of flow is totally absent. Yet we still use causal language to talk about it, which I think leads to a lot of confusions. So there's a lot of work to be done in sort of unt
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