Compact spaces and privileged times; what the video game asteroids can teach us about the present.
The A-Theory of time has long struggled with the results of special relativity. One proposed solution is to stipulate the existence of a physically or metaphysically privileged frame which defines the global present for all observers. Recently this proposal has cropped up in literature on spatially...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 202; no. 5; pp. 1 - 19 |
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Springer Nature
Nov2023
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| Sumario: | The A-Theory of time has long struggled with the results of special relativity. One proposed solution is to stipulate the existence of a physically or metaphysically privileged frame which defines the global present for all observers. Recently this proposal has cropped up in literature on spatially closed universes (SCUs) which seem to naturally instantiate such structures. This paper examines the privileged frame proposal through the lens of SCUs, arguing that even in these space-times which seem overwhelmingly friendly to A-theoretic accounts the theory face insurmountable challenges. |
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