There is, among some scientists and philosophers, the idea that any theory that would allow the time travel would introduce causal issues. (Bolonkin 2011) These types of temporal paradoxes can be avoided by the Novikov self-consistency principle or by a … Read More
In classical vision, space and time are containers; matter is the content. The distinctive property of matter is that it carries energy and impulse, preserved over time, resulting in energy and impulse being fundamental ontologically. (Norton 2012) General Relativity (GR) … Read More
Newton supported the idea of absolute time, unlike Leibniz, for which time is only a relation between events and cannot be expressed independently, a statement in concordance with the relativity of space-time. (Crisp 2007) Eternalism claims that the past and … Read More
The singularities from the general relativity resulting by solving Einstein’s equations were and still are the subject of many scientific debates: Are there singularities in spacetime, or not? Big Bang was an initial singularity? If singularities exist, what is their … Read More
