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Julian Barbour [1937-0] British
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Scientist, Physicist


Julian Barbour is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.
Since receiving his Ph.D. degree on the foundations of Einstein's general theory of relativity at the University of Cologne in 1968, Barbour has supported himself and his family without an academic position, working part-time as a translator.

Change, Time

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My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. Change, Time
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The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
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There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now.
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