Petkov, Vesselin
(2020)
Neither Presentism nor Eternalism -- at What Price?
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Abstract
In a recent paper "Neither Presentism nor Eternalism" (Foundations of Physics (2019) 49, pp. 1325-1335) Carlo Rovelli argued that there is a way out of the dilemma -- presentism or eternalism. However his attempt to avoid it comes at a high price: avoiding to address the fundamental question of the dimensionality of the world and contradicting both Minkowski's arguments for the reality of spacetime, based on the experiments at his time, and the relativistic experimental evidence after his time. I will summarize the main points of that contradiction and will stress again that none of the experiments, which confirmed the relativistic kinematic effects, would be possible if spacetime were not real, which demonstrates that any claim (including Rovelli's), that becoming is objective, directly contradicts the experimental evidence.
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