(via Quanta Magazine) What if time isn't fundamental at all? Physicist Carlo Rovelli reveals how modern physics, from relativity to quantum gravity, has gradually erased time from its equations. In ...
Theoretical physicists have spent decades wrestling with a disorienting possibility: that the flow of time is not woven into the basic laws of physics but instead emerges from gravity’s effect on heat ...
Carlo Rovelli discusses his research on time and his view that it should not appear in the quantum theory of gravity. Robert Hazen and Michael Wong discuss their bold proposal for a new law of nature, ...