A FLOWING TIME INTERPRETATION OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY VIA AN INHOMOGENEOUS TENSE‐AS‐RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY: A COMMENT ON SAULSON.
First, the traditional debates on time: In 1927, J. M. E. McTaggart notably defended a "static time" interpretation of SR by pointing to what he considered as a fundamental paradox in any flowing time rendition: Past, present and future are incompatible determinations. Prof. Saulson begins with the...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 943 - 946 |
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| Sumario: | First, the traditional debates on time: In 1927, J. M. E. McTaggart notably defended a "static time" interpretation of SR by pointing to what he considered as a fundamental paradox in any flowing time rendition: Past, present and future are incompatible determinations. Prof. Saulson begins with the fact that the light cone in SR that accompanies an event P in spacetime divides the world into the causal future, the causal past, and the acausal elsewhere. A FLOWING TIME INTERPRETATION OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY VIA AN INHOMOGENEOUS TENSE-AS-RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY: A COMMENT ON SAULSON. |
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