Is time real? …In one sense, it’s a silly question. The “reality” of something is only an interesting issue if its a well-defined concept whose actual existence is in question, like Bigfoot or supersymmetry. For concepts like “time,” which are unambiguously part of a useful vocabulary we have for describing the world, talking about “reality” is just a bit of harmless gassing. They may be emergent or fundamental, but they’re definitely there.
Sometimes it’s disturbing how good Sean Carrol is at articulating my thoughts. Especially when it pertains to, as above, the philosophy of science. Here’s another:
We should not think of the big bang as the beginning of the universe. We should think of it as the end [of] our [current] understanding of what is happening.
Sean Carroll
Sometimes it’s disturbing how good Sean Carrol is at articulating my thoughts. Especially when it pertains to, as above, the philosophy of science. Here’s another:
Sean Carrol, at 24:10 in the talk God is not a Good Theory
“I don’t understand why a question is interesting, so clearly it’s meaningless.”