"Forget time" · HackerPapers discussions

"Forget time" — mentioned by raattgift

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 03:50:57 GMT

I haven't read Rovelli's pop-sci book. Could you glance through the table of contents and/or the index and look for, among other things, "thermal time" and "time emerges in a world without time"? I would be astonished if he did not discuss these ideas at length in his book. > Rovelli's words from a book 23 years newer than your referenced article, seem to directly contradict what you're arguing Ok, let's deal with that. It's not like he stopped writing on the topic or substantially changed his position (rather than elucidating it). You can click on arXiv:1505.01125, arXiv:1407.3384, and…

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"Forget time" — mentioned by keithpeter

Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:15:21 GMT

Rovelli mentions his paper from 2009 with the title 'Forget Time' in the video. The paper can be downloaded from [1]. I enjoyed the presentation. Talking for an hour on this kind of material with just a piece of string and a couple of watches is fairly impressive. The thought experiment with the wooden box and green/red balls (in two size categories unrelated to their colour) was thought provoking. I'd like to see someone define/construct two sets of macrostates that give a different time scales in a system with one set of microstates. For all I know someone may have actually done that. The…

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