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.
Julian Barbour Quotes
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.
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| Birth: | 1937 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Scientist |
About
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. He resides near Banbury, England.
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