Rovelli, Carlo (2019) Neither Presentism nor Eternalism. Foundations of Physics, 49 (12). pp. 1325-1335. ISSN 0015-9018
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Is reality three-dimensional and becoming real (Presentism), or is reality four-dimensional and becoming illusory (Eternalism)? Both options raise difficulties. I argue that we do not need to be trapped by this dilemma. There is a third possibility: reality has a more complex temporal structure than either of these two naive options. Fundamental becoming is real, but local and unoriented. A notion of present is well defined, but only locally and in the context of approximations.
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| Keywords: | Special Relativity, Time, McTaggart, Reality of Time | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Carlo Rovelli | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2020 19:55 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2024 13:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16898 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Foundations of Physics | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Date: | 6 October 2019 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1325-1335 | ||||||
| Volume: | 49 | ||||||
| Number: | 12 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0015-9018 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16898 |
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