The birth of spacetime atoms as the passage of time

Abstract

The view that the passage of time is physical finds expression in the classical sequential growth models of Rideout and Sorkin in which a discrete spacetime grows by the partially ordered accretion of new spacetime atoms.

arXiv commentArticle based on an invited talk at the conference "Do we need a physics of passage?" Cape Town, South Africa, 10-14 Dec 2012. Submitted for publication in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2014)

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