In today’s episode of Theories of Everything, Curt Jaimungal and Julian Barbour challenge conventional physics by exploring Barbour’s revolutionary ideas on time as an emergent property of change, the universe’s increasing order contrary to entropy, and the foundational nature of shape dynamics.
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LINKED MENTIONED:
– The Janus Point (Julian Barbour’s book): https://www.amazon.com/Janus-Point-New-Theory-Time/dp/0465095461
– ‘Relational Concepts of Space and Time’ (Julian Barbour’s 1982 paper): https://www.jstor.org/stable/687224
– ‘The Theory of Gravitation’ (Paul Dirac’s 1958 paper): https://www.jstor.org/stable/100497
– Carlo Rovelli on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4SAketEHY
– ‘On the Nature of Things’ (book): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674992009
– Leibniz: Philosophical Writings (book): https://www.amazon.com/Leibniz-Philosophical-Writings-Everymans-University/dp/0460119052
– Elementary Principles of Statistical Mechanics (book): https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Principles-Statistical-Mechanics-Physics/dp/0486789950
– The interpretations of quantum mechanics in 5 minutes (article): https://curtjaimungal.substack.com/p/the-interpretations-of-quantum-mechanics
– Sean Carroll on TOE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AoRxtYZrZo
Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction
02:12 – Working Outside of Academia
03:53 – Space, Time, Dimension
10:40 – Mach’s Principle
21:33 – Mach Confused Einstein
24:22 – Two Particle Universe
31:46 – Carlo Rovelli
35:02 – Julian’s Ontology
43:37 – Julian’s Theory ‘Shape Statistics’
51:11 – Leinbiz’s Philosophical Writings
56:14 – Expansion of the Universe (Scale Invariance)
01:05:02 – Cosmological Principle
01:15:34 – Thermodynamics
01:17:15 – Entropy and Complexity
01:30:40 – Wave Function / Double Slit Experiment
01:39:21 – God
01:44:48 – The Role of Instruments
01:47:44 – Etymology of Pattern and Matter
01:51:25 – Join My Substack!
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He is talking my language. Time does not exist. Change yes, and the experience of that is very very relative to all the relationships within the light cone.
There has also been the people talking about the universe blue shifting in time vs red shifting with space. We are changing in and of time and the relationships of entities with exhibit a topological physics.
As far as entropy, after I got over the brain washing I asked why the hell would a universe develop if entropy was the future. Great talk here.
time does not exist its our perception of time…what is time, how do we measure time..we measure time by the patterns/movements of celestial bodies like sun, moon, stars…we dont age because of "time" we age because our bodies break down from the elements of our environment…if u lived on Jupiter where it rotates faster than earth and a full day is 10hrs, and if the environment was the same as earth, would u age faster because Jupiter days are faster
Time is a human construct to measure matter in motion…even Plato knew that all there really is, is the eternal present….Time is not an ontological given, it's a human conceptual construct, as much as geometry is.
Descartes, Locke and Newton took away the world and gave us its excrement instead.
idgas what a physicists says, they can never prove anything
The idea of time expressing the different static representations of the universe like a series of cartoon pages that can make a motion picture is interesting; what if there is no such thing as any one static picture though?
What if time symitry only assembles the picture of the moon while entropy is at play, i.e. what if you where able to completely freeze time and in doing so the universe just turned into a black page with no cartoon animation even being represented on the page?
Time is a non existence, and yet the true master like the zero among the numerals. It is the sense , like the " consciousness" .
Time and consciousness are the two sides of one coin , the only fundamental that while being non physical and beyond the reach of PHYSICS, the truly OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT AND OMNIPRESENT.
We created time here on planet Earth. Time is not even the same on other planets if you want to go with the traditional time. If there are aliens they're not walking around with. Calendars and timex watches it is a illusion
I'm just a bright person but I totally agree with him. We made time.
1000 years ago 2000 years ago. Whatever it was, but it's something that we decided sun up. Sundown basically that's our clock. But it doesn't explain time.
The way you're asking him questions is extremely rude.Dude I don't know if you understand that or not but you're like interviewing for something you don't need to interview him damn
Time is made by humans..
It's obvious. Time is just a way of marking events. It is something we tell ourselves. It is a way we mark changes and routines. It's an arbitrary measure not a thing. If I am wrong give me a bag of time. In fact that idea of time just past me by as I wrote this. There is only the present, which is constant but always changing around us. It's so simple. Change exists, time is just a retrospective measure, everything else is prediction based on what happened before.
Then why the hell is my face melting before my very eyes????😖
~10:40 he describes each moment in the universe, being unique. This got me thinking about the concept of the Planck Length and how that might be associated with an understanding of the passage of time; the smallest unit of everything all at once. Most people think of the simulation theory as an algorithm running. Maybe it’s more like an impulse response. With each smallest quantized unit of everything as its own individual impulse response. Like a flip book. 🤔 idk…
I've seen gas unites in different types they can change charged states in the mindset of density or non density it just depends upon the charge discharge process it can create magnetic field wave variances growing gravity or push pull from rotations the gases that's been in the world is a factor of learning from the opposite side is dischargin discharge out
Video of almost 2 hours feels like 0 seconds!
There's nothing novel about this theory of time .
I'm confused. I thought this was old news and well discovered?
There's a beginning and end because of change.. therefore in due time it does- if you want to calculate it
If you ask someone, “Could you please hold this? I’ll be back in five minutes,” you’ve just made a request based on trust and a shared understanding of time. By saying “five minutes,” you’re referencing a universally recognized measure of duration. This gives the person a concrete expectation—they know the difference between waiting five minutes and waiting five hours. Without this shared framework of time, the request would lack clarity, leaving them uncertain about when you might return.
How old is that old croaker sack?? Maybe 85 years? That's ,"time", folks.
His vid was about 1 hr 54 min. Whoever watched it wasted that much "time".
I didn't have the "time", thank goodness!
Physicists have been saying this since Einstein.
When do you stop believing in historical text
Kind of thin Eric Weinstein would say
Did he say the sun was a non-rotating star? Did I misunderstand something here?
if we could freeze the whole universe it would had been no time because there would be no change. if everything is frozen then there is no way to measure it. its quite obvious.
Time exists in the same way that an inch exists.
Time has 0 value. It is ACTIONS that have value. Love is NOT love, without a HUG or a Kiss. 🤔Just ask a GRANDFATHER who never receives even a phone call, how much "love" he feels. 🤔🤨 Or ask a MOTHER who has DIED and not received a single visit or phone call for MONThS, HOW MUCH "LOVE" she FEELS FROM her children. 🤔ACTIONS, have REAL Value, NOT TIME.
I don't think it is true.
Barbour's translation of Vizgin's 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆 is a lovely thoughtful book that helped my own researches quite a bit.
Time is just a tool for us. Elsewhere time don't exist.
I have PhD in biochemistry and couldn't understand anything that he was talking about.
Does Dr Barbour says that all different shapes of one thing exist simultaneously and time is our conception of sequencing those different shapes of that thing? for example our conception of growing up and getting old for one person from day one to like 85 years old caused by giving sequence to different ages of that person that exist simultaneously?.
Ummmmm. What? Dude says time doesn’t exist but uses time to define things?? Off his rocker. Time is our point of view.
He's not so convincing, is he? 😂
If there is no time how could there be such a thing as frequency? If there is no frequency how could there be different states of matter, radio waves, light and sound and so forth.
All objects interactions and actions are acting and reacting according to the initial frame of reference unless acted upon by an intelligence
well… my boss still claims- it exists!!!
intuitively makes sense, the universe as a static frame infinitely shifts towards a frame of higher resolution
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