Episode 35: Physics and Relationalism: An Interview with Julian Barbour

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

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Is There an Underlying Unity in the Universe?

02:51 • 6min

3

Shape Dynamics - Is There a Ruler Outside the Universe?

08:28 • 2min

4

Is the Point Particle Really a Point?

10:25 • 3min

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The Newtonian Gravitational Potential

13:30 • 2min

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Is There Something Prior to Just Shapes?

15:56 • 5min

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Are We Admitting Something More Than Relationalism?

20:31 • 5min

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How Big Is the Whole Universe?

25:23 • 2min

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The Scale and the Size of the Universe

27:35 • 5min

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How Successfully Has Shaped Dynamics Goes?

32:52 • 5min

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Is There a Non Local Type Connection?

37:55 • 3min

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What Is It in Its Innermost Core, Holds the World Together?

40:35 • 4min

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The Micro Wave Background Is Infinitely Deep

45:03 • 3min

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Is There a Bottom Layer?

48:07 • 2min

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Is There a Dynama in the Universe?

49:59 • 5min

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How to Change the Shapes of a Newton's Equation

54:44 • 6min

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Observing the Cosmological Red Shift

01:00:24 • 4min

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Is the Universe Expanding?

01:04:38 • 4min

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What's the Biggest Mystery in Cosmology?

01:08:29 • 5min

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Dark Matter and Inflation

01:13:41 • 3min

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The Newton Gravitational Potential Made Scale Ind Variant

01:16:22 • 4min

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The Arow of Time

01:20:04 • 4min

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The Gradient of Clustering, the Increase of Entropy

01:24:20 • 4min

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Leibnitz

01:28:02 • 5min

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Is There a Unity to the Universe?

01:32:34 • 2min

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Quantum Mechanics

01:35:01 • 3min

27

The Plank Constant Changes Overtime

01:37:38 • 2min

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Invoking Teleology in Evolution Is Not Enough

01:39:43 • 2min

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Theoretical Physicist's Love

01:41:34 • 3min

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The Ideal Law of the Universe Is to Increase Variety Forever

01:44:22 • 3min

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Is There a Way to Understand Complexity?

01:47:04 • 4min

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Libe, a Book by E Kepler

01:50:49 • 2min

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The Theory of Anything Podcast Could Use Your Help

01:53:11 • 2min