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THE REALITY OF TIME FLOW - RICHARD T W ARTHUR G...

It is commonly held that there is no place for the 'now' in physics  and also that the passing
of time is something subjective  having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with
the way reality is. Indeed  the majority of modern theoretical physicists and philosophers of
physics contend that the passing of time is incompatible with modern physical theory  and
excluded in a fundamental description of physical reality. This book provides a forceful
rebuttal of such claims. In successive chapters the author explains the historical precedents
of the modern opposition to time flow  giving careful expositions of matters relevant to
becoming in classical physics  the special and general theories of relativity  and quantum
theory  without presupposing prior expertise in these subjects. Analysing the arguments of
thinkers ranging from Aristotle  Russell  and Bergson to the proponents of quantum gravity  he
contends that the passage of time  understood as a local becoming of events out of those in
their past at varying rates  is not only compatible with the theories of modern physics  but
implicit in them.

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