... these features? Is it just accidental that they coincide in our world? By identifying what is special to time and finding connections amongst them, we learn something deep about the nature of time in physical theories. manifest time physical time time and space direction of time quantum gravity asymmetry...

..., relational account of passage that is based on tenseless, temporal relations is presented and defended. It is further argued that the B-theory is compatible with an objective direction of time. This chapter concludes with some reflections on the arguments presented in the book as a whole. For the past...

... of the book’s parts and its argumentative trajectory from the tripartite approach to the geometrical approach. passage time space direction of time change This book is about several philosophical problems concerning the passage of time. Before these problems can be stated, the phenomenon of passage...

...This chapter develops an idea of Richard Feynman’s, namely the idea that anti-particles are nothing but particles travelling back in time, and the related idea that what is standardly called the CPT theorem is really a theorem which shows that space-time has neither a direction in time nor...

... as to whether there is, beyond our convention of describing things from past to future, a time-directionality belonging to processes in the world, or directionality of time itself. Whereas B-theorists take the direction of time to be a mind-independent feature of the world, C-theorists can take time-directed...

... of the underlying dynamics? How could thermodynamic properties, such as temperature and entropy, be understood? Could it be, as Ludwig Boltzmann proposed, that our very notion of the direction of time had a statistical mechanical basis? This chapter discusses the need for and structure of the basic probabilistic...

... that our belief in the passage of time is explained by psychological projection. Is the one-w ay direction of time, as represented by the earlier- later relation, also merely a matter 130 T he D ire c tio n o f T ime of projection, or does the apparent directionality of time really correspond to something...

... as experienced is refuted. The first section sets the stage, the second focuses on the Passage of time, and the third focuses on the Direction of time. Section four argues that embodied, embedded, and extended cognitive science and phenomenology support the neutral monism of RBW. The fifth section focuses...

...Begins by showing how theories of causation can be accommodated within presentism, discussing the regularity theory, the counterfactual theory, and the chance‐raising theory. Discusses the direction of time and causation and whether counterfactuals can ground it; also, whether the means–end...

...This chapter is about the arrow or direction of time against the backdrop of the pure manifold theory. It is accepted that the fact that time has a direction ought to be explained. It is proposed that the arrow of time is grounded in deeper facts about the four-dimensional nature of each object...

... that tensed facts reduce to tenseless facts even in a dynamic world, where what tenseless facts there are depends on what time it is. The different roles of causation for the present approach are summed up: Causation defines the direction of time, and can be used to analyse temporal relations; There can...

... Maudlin Tim The Born rule Quantum mechanics direction of time non-existent objects Everett interpretation One of the hardest questions in fundamental physics and fundamental metaphysics is this: what exists at the fundamental level of reality? There is no consensus in contemporary physics...

...direction of time thermodynamic entropy causal quantum entanglement retrocausation The directionality of time is often referred to as the “arrow” of time (not to be confused with Zeno’s paradox of “The Arrow”). In fact, there are a number of temporally asymmetric processes, each of which...

...quantum-mechanical branching is a time-directed process, while the underlying equations of quantum theory admit no preferred direction of time. The chapter demonstrates that this apparent incompatibility is an aspect of the better-known apparent incompatibility between the directedness in time...

... does not affect the past; the (supposed) fact that there is a direction in time, from past to future; and the fact that there is a before and after in the passage of time. However, some of these features may not be objective at all, rather, they may be features of the subjective view of those who...

... with governing accounts is explaining what they are and how laws govern. Some versions also seem to require a problematic primitive direction of time. Powers accounts maintain the Aristotelian view that various kinds of entities have characteristic dispositions. The main problems with powers accounts...

... to tenseless ones. The conception of time defended is supported by arguments from causation: there can be causation only in a world where the past and the present are real, while the future is not. Further, the direction of time can be defined by the direction of causation, and causation can be used...