"Forget time"

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2009-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3832v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

'First Community Prize' of the FQXi 'The Nature of Time' Essay Contest

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Following a line of research that I have developed for several years, I argue that the best strategy for understanding quantum gravity is to build a picture of the physical world where the notion of time plays no role. I summarize here this point of view, explaining why I think that in a fundamental description of nature we must "forget time", and how this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory. The idea is to develop a formalism that treats dependent and independent variables on the same footing. In short, I propose to interpret mechanics as a theory of relations between variables, rather than the theory of the evolution of variables in time.

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