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- Title
'Forget time'.
- Authors
Rovelli, Carlo
- Abstract
Following a line of research that I have developed for several years, I argue that the best strategy for understanding quantum gravity is to build a picture of the physical world where the notion of time plays no role at all. I summarize here this point of view, explaining why I think that in a fundamental description of nature we must 'forget time', and how this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory. The idea is to develop a formalism that treats dependent and independent variables on the same footing. In short, I propose to interpret mechanics as a theory of relations between variables, rather than the theory of the evolution of variables in time.
- Subjects
QUANTUM gravity; PHYSICS research; MATHEMATICAL variables; MATHEMATICAL physics; MATHEMATICAL analysis; MECHANICS (Physics); GENERAL relativity (Physics)
- Publication
Foundations of Physics, 2011, Vol 41, Issue 9, p1475
- ISSN
0015-9018
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10701-011-9561-4