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Questioning the Emergence of Time

Published:2024-06-06 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0925-4560
Container-title:Journal for General Philosophy of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:J Gen Philos Sci

Author:

Riggs Peter J.^ORCID

Abstract

AbstractThe Evolving Block Universe is a model where spacetime continuously emerges leading to a ‘growth’ of spacetime by which there is a passage of time. Its most recent version extends ideas on the passage of time and the various arrows of time (determined by the cosmological evolution of the whole universe). Attention is drawn to some principal problems with this model, especially how the present moment and the passage of time are defined.

Funder

Australian National University

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10838-024-09674-9.pdf

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