How Relativity Contradicts Presentism
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But this picture of a block universe, composed of a timeless web of world-linesin a four-dimensional space, however strongly suggested by the theory of relativity, is a piece of gratuitous metaphysics. Since the concept of change, of something happening, is an inseparable component of the common-sense concept of time and a necessary component of the scientists view of reality, it is quite out of the question that theoretical physics should require us to hold the Eleatic view that nothing happens in the objective world. Here, as so often in the philosophy of science, a useful limitation in the form of representation is mistaken for a de ciency of the universe (Black, 1962).
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تاریخ انتشار 2004