Twins' Paradox and Closed Timelike Curves: The Role of Proper Time and the Presentist View on Spacetime (2012)
Friebe, Cord (Author)
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Volume: 43, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 313-326
Edition Details: Part of special issue, “Philosophy of Physics”
Language: English
Relativity allegedly contradicts presentism, the dynamic view of time and reality, according to which temporal passage is conceived of as an existentially distinguished `moving' now. Against this common belief, the paper motivates a presentist interpretation of spacetime: It is argued that the fundamental concept of time---proper time---cannot be characterized by the earlier-later relation, i.e., not in the B-theoretical sense. Only the presentist can provide a temporal understanding of the twins' paradox and of universes with closed timelike curves.
...MoreArticle Kuhlmann, Meinard; Pietsch, Wolfgang (2012) What Is and Why Do We Need Philosophy of Physics?. Journal for General Philosophy of Science (pp. 209-214).
Similar Citations
Article
Joël Dolbeault;
(2018)
Einstein et l’univers-bloc
(/isis/citation/CBB905178751/)
Chapter
Saunders, Simon;
(2003)
Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries: The Case for Non-Reductive Relationalism
(/isis/citation/CBB000430188/)
Book
Bradford Skow;
(2015)
Objective Becoming
(/isis/citation/CBB098887493/)
Book
Petkov, Vesselin;
(2010)
Minkowski Spacetime: A Hundred Years Later
(/isis/citation/CBB001032084/)
Book
Yourgrau, Palle;
(2005)
Gödel, Einstein und die Folgen: Vermächtnis einer ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft
(/isis/citation/CBB000740464/)
Article
Bourne, Craig;
(2004)
Becoming Inflated
(/isis/citation/CBB000410749/)
Article
Karim P. Y. Thébault;
(2021)
On Mach on time
(/isis/citation/CBB802881473/)
Book
Yourgrau, Palle;
(2005)
A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein
(/isis/citation/CBB000500245/)
Book
Lee Smolin;
(2013)
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe
(/isis/citation/CBB232842585/)
Book
Kennedy, J. B.;
(2003)
Space, Time, and Einstein
(/isis/citation/CBB000302131/)
Article
Galison, Peter L.;
Burnett, D. Graham;
(2003)
Einstein, Poincaré & Modernity: A Conversation
(/isis/citation/CBB000300957/)
Article
Giannetto, Enrico Antonio;
(2001)
La relatività del moto e del tempo in Giordano Bruno
(/isis/citation/CBB000502798/)
Article
Jung, Tobias;
(2006)
Bemerkungen zum Begriff der Zeit in der relativistischen Kosmologie
(/isis/citation/CBB000701097/)
Book
Craig, William Lane;
(2000)
The Tensed Theory of Time: A Critical Examination
(/isis/citation/CBB000110759/)
Article
(2000)
There's No Time like the Present (In Minkowski Spacetime)
(/isis/citation/CBB000110569/)
Article
Dyck, Maarten Van;
Verelst, Karin;
(2013)
“Whatever Is Neither Everywhere Nor Anywhere Does Not Exist”: The Concepts of Space and Time in Newton and Leibniz
(/isis/citation/CBB001320861/)
Thesis
Mark Simes;
(2015)
Tempora Mutantur: An Examination of Time in Physics, Biology, and Human Mental Experience
(/isis/citation/CBB593567985/)
Chapter
Alberto Giovanni Biuso;
(2016)
Filosofia teoretica come filosofia del tempo
(/isis/citation/CBB812907389/)
Article
Felipe Johnson;
(2016)
El problema del tiempo en la física: un planteamiento existencial de la ciencia desde Heidegger
(/isis/citation/CBB092956237/)
Essay Review
Alberto Cordero;
(2016)
The Puzzles of Time, Then and Now
(/isis/citation/CBB738676827/)
Be the first to comment!