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The growing block universe, or the growing block view, is a theory of time arguing that the past and present both exist, and the future as yet does not. The present is an objective property, to be compared with a moving spotlight. By the passage of time more of the world comes into being; therefore, the block universe is said to be growing.
In the philosophy of space and time, eternalism [1] is an approach to the ontological nature of time, which takes the view that all existence in time is equally real, as opposed to presentism or the growing block universe theory of time, in which at least the future is not the same as any other time. [2]
Julian Barbour (/ ˈ b ɑːr b ər /; born 1937) is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.. Since receiving his PhD degree on the foundations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity at the University of Cologne in 1968, Barbour has supported himself and his family without an academic position, working part-time as a translator ...
Luminiferous aether theory; Static Universe theory [14] Steady state theory, a model developed by Hermann Bondi, Thomas Gold, and Fred Hoyle whereby the expanding universe was in a steady state, and had no beginning. It was a competitor of the Big Bang model until evidence supporting the Big Bang and falsifying the steady state was found.
Gosse published Omphalos in 1857 to explain his answer to this question. He concluded that the religious tradition was correct. He concluded that the religious tradition was correct. Gosse began with the earlier idea that the Earth contained mature organisms at the instant they were created, and that these organisms had false signs of their ...
The reason we seem to be alone in the universe might be right beneath your feet, scientists have suggested. For years, scientists have been perplexed by the fact that we have not found any other ...
Something is changing the expansion rate of the universe, scientists have said. For decades, researchers have been attempting to measure the “Hubble constant”, or the speed at which the cosmos ...
For a century, scientists have thought that the universe was expanding in all directions. To make that assumption work, astronomers have used the concept of dark energy.