Physics in the real universe: time and spacetime

DOI10.1007/S10714-006-0332-ZzbMATH Open1157.83355arXivgr-qc/0605049OpenAlexW2041309073WikidataQ56113538 ScholiaQ56113538MaRDI QIDQ995857FDOQ995857

Authors: George F. R. Ellis 

Publication date: 10 September 2007

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Block Universe idea, representing spacetime as a fixed whole, suggests the flow of time is an illusion: the entire universe just is, with no special meaning attached to the present time. This view is however based on time-reversible microphysical laws and does not represent macro-physical behaviour and the development of emergent complex systems, including life, which do indeed exist in the real universe. When these are taken into account, the unchanging block universe view of spacetime is best replaced by an evolving block universe which extends as time evolves, with the potential of the future continually becoming the certainty of the past. However this time evolution is not related to any preferred surfaces in spacetime; rather it is associated with the evolution of proper time along families of world lines

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605049

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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