Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour
The Theory of Anything
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Is There Something Prior to Just Shapes?
imean: What if instead of masses, it was something else which would also impact the type of potential? He says there seems to be some sort of something prior to just shapes. In principle, all of those forces are represented by analogues of the newtonian potential, but they are expressed in terms of fields and not point particles.IMEAN: We're a long way from developing shape dynamics to do that, but the possibility is y there.
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