2 papers
physics.hist-ph2026
Scale Invariance, Variety and Central Configurations
Maria I. R. Lourenço, Julian Barbour, Francisco S. N. Lobo
Scale invariance has received very little attention in physics. Nevertheless, it provides a natural conceptual foundation for a relational understanding of the universe, where abso…
gr-qc2024
Complexity and Its Creation
Julian Barbour, Zaza Doborjginidze, Tim Koslowski +1
Except for crystalline or random structures, an agreed definition of complexity for intermediate and hence interesting cases does not exist. We fill this gap with a notion of compl…