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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2002 53(2):289-330; doi:10.1093/bjps/53.2.289
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Jeremy Butterfield1

1 All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL, England

This review of Julian Barbour's The End of Time ([1999]) discusses his Machian theories of dynamics, and his proposal that a Machian perspective enables one to solve the problem of time in quantum geometrodynamics, viz. by saying that there is no time!

1 Introduction

2 Machian themes in classical physics

2.1 The status quo

2.2 Machianism

2.2.1 The temporal metric as emergent

2.2.2 Machian theories

2.2.3 Assessing intrinsic dynamics

3 The end of time?

3.1 Time unreal? The classical case

3.1.1 Spontaneity

3.1.2 Barbour's vision: time capsules

3.2 Evidence from quantum physics?

3.2.1 Mott scattering as a model for time capsules

3.2.2 Solving the problem of time?


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