What is and What should be Time?

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1994-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9408027v4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

30 pages, LaTeX, no figures (Enlarged. To appear in ``Apeiron" no. 2, vol. 3, 1996)

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The notions of time in the theories of Newton and Einstein are reviewed so that certain of their assumptions are clarified. These assumptions will be seen as the causes of the incompatibility between the two different ways of understanding time, and seen to be philosophical hypotheses, rather than purely scientific ones. The conflict between quantum mechanics and (general) relativity is shown to be a consequence of retaining the Newtonian conception of time in the context of quantum mechanics. As a remedy for this conflict, an alternative definition of time -- earlier presented in Kitada 1994a and 1994b -- is reviewed with less mathematics and more emphasis on its philosophical aspects. Based on this revised understanding of time it is shown that quantum mechanics and general relativity are reconciled while preserving the current mathematical formulations of both theories.

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