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Quantum without Quantum
Julian Barbour
In my contribution to the collection at https://dd70th.weebly.com marking the 70th birthday of David Deutsch I suggest that hitherto unrecognised properties of the Newton gravitati…
Gravity's Creative Core
Julian Barbour
I argue that the essence of gravity can be understood only in the context of the universe and that unrecognised implicit retention of Newtonian absolute scale and the impact of the…
Time's Arrow and Simultaneity: A Critique of Rovelli's Views
Julian Barbour
In the joint paper "Bridging the neuroscience and physics of time" Rovelli, as the physicist coauthor of neuroscientist Dean Buonomano, makes statements that rely on theoretical fr…
Entropy and Cosmological Arrows of Time
Julian Barbour
Deutsch and Aguirre have recently shown that the solutions of certain dynamical systems typically contain a point of minimum size that they identify as an entropy minimum and from…
Variability as a better characterization of Shannon entropy
Gabriele Carcassi, Christine A. Aidala, Julian Barbour
The Shannon entropy, one of the cornerstones of information theory, is widely used in physics, particularly in statistical mechanics. Yet its characterization and connection to phy…
Janus Points and Arrows of Time
Julian Barbour, Tim Koslowski, Flavio Mercati
We clarify and strengthen our demonstration that arrows of time necessarily arise in unconfined systems. Contrary to a recent claim, this does not require an improbable selection p…