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The Nature of Time Essay Contest
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TOPIC: About the Nature of Time by Pierre Sabatier [refresh]
TOPIC: About the Nature of Time by Pierre Sabatier [refresh]
Essay Abstract
Abstract Our as yet dominant interpretative scheme of physics is classical realism. Being inherited from classical physics, classical realism is consistent with it – but for this very reason, it is not with Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. The question of the Nature of Time then requires in the first place a critical revisiting of its basic assumptions about our perception of reality, our understanding of Space and Time, of movement, irreversibility, etc. This leads to a new hypothesis. Its consistency with Quantum Mechanics is then tested by confronting it with some famous problems such as wave-particle duality, observer-created reality and double split experiment.
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I was born 1938 I am a retired journalist I have no academic credentials worth mentioning I have made no publications in this area I have been working in different countries,especially Eastern Europe, Russia (USSR), Cambodia Languages : French, English, Russian, Spanish
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Abstract Our as yet dominant interpretative scheme of physics is classical realism. Being inherited from classical physics, classical realism is consistent with it – but for this very reason, it is not with Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. The question of the Nature of Time then requires in the first place a critical revisiting of its basic assumptions about our perception of reality, our understanding of Space and Time, of movement, irreversibility, etc. This leads to a new hypothesis. Its consistency with Quantum Mechanics is then tested by confronting it with some famous problems such as wave-particle duality, observer-created reality and double split experiment.
Author Bio
I was born 1938 I am a retired journalist I have no academic credentials worth mentioning I have made no publications in this area I have been working in different countries,especially Eastern Europe, Russia (USSR), Cambodia Languages : French, English, Russian, Spanish
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