Weinert, Friedel
(2013)
EPR and the 'Passage' of Time.
Philosophia Naturalis, 50 (2).
pp. 173-199.
ISSN ISSN 0031-8027
Abstract
The essay revisits the puzzle of the ‘passage’ of time in relation to EPR-type measurements and asks what philosophical consequences can be drawn from them. Some argue that the lack of invariance of temporal order in the measurement of a space-like related EPR pair, under relativistic motion, casts serious doubts on the ‘reality’ of the lapse of time. Others argue thatcertain features of quantum mechanics establisha tensed theory of time – understood here as Possibilism or the growing block universe. The paper analyzes the employment of frame-invariant entropic clocks in a relativistic setting and argues that tenselessness does not imply timelessness. But this conclusion does not support a tensed theory of time, which requires a preferred foliation. It is argued that the only reliable inference from the EPR example and the use of entropic clocks is an inference not just to a Leibnizian order of the succession of events but a frame-invariant order according to some selected clocks.
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Published Article or Volume
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| Keywords: |
Covariance, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations (EPR), entropy, entropic clocks, Eternalism, invariance, ‘passage’ of time, Presentism, Possibilism |
| Depositing User: |
Friedel Weinert
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| Date Deposited: |
06 May 2017 16:25 |
| Last Modified: |
06 May 2017 16:25 |
| Item ID: |
13025 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Philosophia Naturalis |
| Publisher: |
Vittorio Klostermann |
| Official URL: |
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klos/philnat |
| Date: |
October 2013 |
| Page Range: |
pp. 173-199 |
| Volume: |
50 |
| Number: |
2 |
| ISSN: |
ISSN 0031-8027 |
| URI: |
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/13025 |
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