A thought-experiment about matter, space, and time.

Post by mikhailfranco » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 9:25 AM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #3

This reminds me of Mach's Principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle

Yes, that is where it all started, but there is ongoing development of the relational view. For example, in this essay Julian Barbour derives an expression for time in terms of positions:

http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Barbour_The_Nature_...

And here is David Mermin's "Ithaca Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", otherwise known as the "Zero Worlds" hypothesis (to contrast to the more famous "Many Worlds"), because it is entirely relational:

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801057

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609013

Mik

Post by markkat » Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 12:03 PM UTC

mikhailfranco wrote: post #11

arethuza wrote: post #3

This reminds me of Mach's Principle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach%27s_principle

Yes, that is where it all started, but there is ongoing development of the relational view. For example, in this essay Julian Barbour derives an expression for time in terms of positions: http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Barbour_The_Nature_... And here is David Mermin's "Ithaca Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", otherwise known as the "Zero Worlds" hypothesis (to contrast to the more famous "Many Worlds"),…

Thanks for pointing these out mikhailfranco and arethuza. I'm the author of the linked post. I'll be giving them a read.

Just scanning them now, I think they will be very helpful.

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