Julian Barbour | The End of Time

To everyone who likes Barbour ideas on time, check out Everything Forever from Gevin Giorbran.

People have a distaste for simplicity...

Why would a painter come to these same thoughts on the non existence of time?
Because words confound us from birth...unless they’re in a poem jingle, or rhyme 🐚

change is how we as humans measure time, but that does not mean that time is emergent from change. thats like saying a yard emerges from a yardstick.

Excelent video. Philochrony is the theory that affirms that time is magnitive: objetive, imperceptible (intervals) and measurable (duration).

It' so sad that such an old man hasn't been able to figure this triviality out, yet.

Life is Eternal,
Motion is the most precious sign of Life,
Time is 'the shadow' of Motion.
The Stuff-side, physical world, is a Motion-Ocean.

Solved

Is there somewhere in these
Statements a knowledge of a Creator where time can
Start at the beginning of
Gods creation He allows us
our personal imagining.
Try start at The Tree of Life
M.Braithwaite Yorkshire Viking

The best way of answering the question, "What is Time"? is that time is the dimension between events!

Superficial understanding of the term "Time".. It's not only related to change, Time is related to numbers and to spaces.. If time was not real when related to space then why the traveller by plane would get from a continent to another in couple of hours while traveller on a mule would take months to reach the same destination. We live in a space that has its own timer, and the timer is related to all the spaces and creatures that live within this space.. If time was not real, there would be no generations that die together and generations that are born together.. Yes time is not something physical, it's not made of matter, but it's real in the structure of life cycles.. It's there as much as moon and sun are there and it will remain to exist as long as the movements of planets continue in specific rhythm. to each one of us his own timer which is working within the global timer set for this planet

Time appears to be one of our senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and time. No two people appears feel and experience time in the same way. For some it runs or flies, for others is drags and crawls. It's not when we are, it's where we are.

I love the way that Barbour thinks. But the statement "No one knows how consciousness works" is an outrageous claim. Such an absolute statement about global ignorance, when it is our particular individual ignorance that is unknown to begin with. Categorical statements about the ignorance of everyone else are a hallmark of unfortunate intellectual elitism.

Physical movement is, in my eyes, just a chemical reaction against gravity.
Every matter tries to be at the same place at the same time, called gravity, that's impossible. The reaction against is heat, cause of chemical reactions and fusions, which creates movement.
Movement always wants to stop, cause it needs energy from reactions of matter trying to be at the same place ^^ and only inside black holes wins the gravity.

Our impression of time is also just chemical reactions as long as we fighting against gravity.

The end of time? The last idea... DCN

Time is the repositioning of matter and energy due to energy. The mathematical concept of time is needed to describe chemical reactions, physical movement and the relativistic universe

I love Sean Carroll's take on this. What does this view of time achieve? What does it progress? Does it generate any prediction or even effects? Carroll said that if anybody could demonstrate an effect or a value from looking at the world this way then he might be inclined to join the conversation. It seems no more than an exercise in semantics.

Is there causation in change; if so time could be product of causation?

How does causation and time happen in quantum fields / wave function? Could there be backward causation of time in quantum wave function?

Can causation in space-time of general relativity be related to causation in quantum field mechanics, how interact?

Could quantum field(s) / wave function have causation that produces space-time in general relativity?

Is causation linked to consciousness / subjective awareness?

Does time have something to do with energy moving towards equilibrium to increase entropy?

His idea about time is ok as time seen by human sense, but it does no use to explain many phenomenons beyond of our sense capability. Equivalence of mass n energy for example. Time in reality is beyond our cognitive sense to grasp, thats why Einstein become man of the century because the way he understand things isn't like other human, and its explain many phenomenons.

I found his narrative very mixed up and confused. He says time is an illusion and then talks about his wife passing two years earlier ? Time ?
Very confused this.

the Confucians made the image, the taoists animated it via a reflection.. movement and stillness

15 min mass from the symmetry breaking...

18 min look to the golgi complex and gravity and sm. movements...

folds and transcriptions.

Physicists Schmizicist.. as they all chase the laser pointer . Barbour locks onto the person moving it

Know what is in the box before thinking out side of it ..

out of this realization that time is an illusion, unfortunately, nothing comes of it yet

TIME IS ALL ABOUT STATISTICS AND GRAVITY IS DA ONLY STATISTICIAN IN DA....RAUM...TO OWN TIME YA HAVE TO CONFRONT ALL OPTIONS AT ONCE...

I still have his book The End of Time from 1999. What a wonderful man.

God The Creater is the one who control the Universes

Yes, when the brin stop is a sign that shows by time movemento. Because, mind direction it will go like time movement. Which's really connected with the heart, andlastlIy. Heartcan stop, that was the end of each an individual's personal death

Very interesting points are made. I was wondering if Mr. Julian harbour is aware of that jean-Pierre Petit , A French scientist already developed a cosmological model called “The Janus Cosmological Model (JCM) describes the universe as a Riemannian manifold with two different metrics that handle positive and negative masses in general relativity with no paradox, in very good agreement with latest observational data.”

Time doesn't exist. Time is a mental construction

Not really coherent. In one moment he denies spacetime/static time, which would be confirming the reality of time/change, and in the next moment he calls the passage of time an illusion.

From this video, I could only say that the unification of classical and quantum is simply the symmetry, but to put this in a mathematical context or equations it goes beyond my skills in math and physics!

Time as an independent "thing" has no existence apart from the Ultimate Reality, Pure Consciousness or Brahman (Cf. Shankara's Advaita Vedanta). This is experiential but not in a dualistic sense. To tap into and merge with the timeless eternal NOW, no problem. Access "Mahamritunjaya mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir" and listen to it for 5 min per day for at least two weeks. In due time you will experience a state that transcends time, (Turiya, the fourth state that engulfs waking, dreaming and deep sleep. There's only the eternal NOW. (Sat-Chit-Ananda).

Finally, after such a long time looking for it, here is one clear explanation of why time is an illusion! Thank you so much.

The interviewer is awesome here! Really knowledgeable and probing 👍👍

That was quite interesting, but I'm not sold on the big bang just doesn't make any sense atoll. Starting position is a better way to think of it. Temperature of the vacuum space has increased from the previous epoch. So how does this happen. Microbes little half moon shaped life. This is how we get from a frozen state to a gaseous state of the infinite ♾️ vacuum space. About 10 or so years ago I had discussions about this with B,Cox under my full name and he had the same thoughts about the infinite ♾️ vacuum space. Water is a miracle in all its forms. And like our planet Microbes gave us oxygen. And with this the temperature went up. I believe this same process occurred in the vacuum space. Microbes may be throughout the entire infinite ♾️ vacuum space. So we need to capture some ice people lots of ice from the vacuum space and just see what shows up. If microbes are present, then that would certainly explain what's happened prior to this epoch. Let's start there.

El tiempo del hombre es diferente al tiempo de Dios,solo los justos están en el tiempo de Dios ,porque el tiempo del hombre es una ilusión

Brain damage can create a strobe effect (like a disco)
The brain sees a series of frozen "motion"
The motion your brain generates isn't actually recorded at 60fps (or whatever)
The brain can't use that much energy
It is more efficient to create the appearance of motion from a few stills

I read Julian's book in 2003. I was enthralled and happy to see this. He seems to be similar to Donald Hoffman's thoughts on time and consciousness. Thanks

You say time is emergent. I think time is a logical and mental construct.