OFF: THE END OF TIME

[Nick Lee]

Sounds not unlike the Tralfamadorean view of time presented in Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse Five.
So it goes...

Nick
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> Very cosmic ...
>
> "In a profile in The Sunday Times (October, 1998), Steve Farrar
> wrote: "Barbour argues that we live in a universe which has
> neither past nor future. A strange new world in which we are alive
> and dead in the same instant. In this eternal present, our sense of
> the passage of time is nothing more than a giant cosmic illusion.
> 'There is nothing modest about my aspirations,' he said. 'This
> could herald a revolution in the way we perceive the world.'"
> Cosmologist Lee Smolin notes that Barbour has presented "the
> most interesting and provocative new idea about time to be
> proposed in many years. If true, it will change the way we see
> reality. Barbour is one of the few people who is truly both a
> scientist and a philosopher."
>
> http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/barbour/barbour_index.html