Beyond the dynamical universe: unifying block universe physics and time as experienced
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| adam_text | Contents
Part I Overview
Overture for Ants 3
1 Introduction 10
1.1 Dynamical versus adynamical explanation 10
1.2 The impasse 20
1.3 How did we get here? 29
1.4 God’s-eye physics to the rescue 39
Foundational Physics for Chapter 1 46
Part II Adynamical Explanation: Physics
2 The Block Universe from Special Relativity 53
2.1 Introduction 53
2.2 Abridged introduction to special relativity 55
2.3 Relativity of simultaneity 56
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 2 62
2.4 Introduction 62
2.5 The argument from the relativity of simultaneity 65
2.5.1 General outline and definition of terms 65
2.5.2 RoS argument 68
2.6 Presentist points of contention 70
2.6.1 Deflationary objections: No presentist/eternalist
distinction 71
2.6.2 Compatibilist and incompatibilist objections 72
2.7 Response to objection 73
2.7.1 Defining terms: Establishing a metaphysical
presentist/eternalist distinction 73
2.7.2 The transitivity of reality 77
2.7.3 Against the point presentist 79
2.7.4 Preferred foliations in spacetime 81
2.7.5 The spatial presentist: Absurdity in incomp atibilist
presentism? 84
2.8 Conclusion 85
Appendix A: Against the dynamical interpretation of special relativity 86
Appendix B: Objection to RoS argument from a preferred frame or
time as fundamental 88
Foundational Physics for Chapter 2 95
x Contents
3 Resolving Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes from
General Relativity 99
3.1 Introduction 99
3.2 Abridged introduction to general relativity 103
3.3 Big Bang cosmology and its inexplicable initial conditions 105
3.4 The paradoxes of closed timelike curves 115
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 3 122
3.5 Introduction 122
3.6 General relativity and the block universe 122
3.7 The Big Bang and the Past Hypothesis in the dynamical universe 125
Foundational Physics for Chapter 3 128
4 Relational Blockworld and Quantum Mechanics 136
4.1 Introduction 136
4.2 Abridged introduction to quantum mechanics 138
4.3 Quantum superposition, entanglement, and quantum nonlocality 143
4.4 Experimental instantiations of quantum weirdness 149
4.5 RBW on the interpretational issues of quantum mechanics 159
4.6 RBW and quantum information theory 167
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 4 171
4.7 Introduction 171
4.8 Contextual emergence defined 171
4.9 RBW and ontological spatiotemporal contextuality: A subset
of ontological contextual emergence 184
4.10 A realist, psi-epistemic account 191
Foundational Physics for Chapter 4 198
4.11 The Schrodinger equation 198
4.12 The Mermin experiment explained via RBW 200
4.13 The adynamical global constraint of RBW 203
4.14 RBW analysis of the twin-slit experiment 209
5 Relational Blockworld and Quantum Field Theory 214
5.1 Introduction 214
5.2 A brief history of unification 215
5.3 Abridged introduction to quantum field theory 219
5.4 An adynamical approach to particle physics 222
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 5 226
5.5 Introduction 226
5.6 Gauge invariance, gauge fixing, and the Aharonov-Bohm
effect 227
5.7 Regularization and renormalization 229
5.8 Poincaré invariance, inequivalent representations,
and Haag’s theorem 230
Foundational Physics for Chapter 5 233
Contents xi
5.9 Classical field theory and QFT 233
5.10 Gauge invariance 23 5
6 Relational Blockworld Approach to Unification
and Quantum Gravity 236
6.1 Introduction 236
6.2 Explaining the need for quantum gravity 237
6.3 RBW on quantum gravity and unification 238
6.4 Black hole firewall paradox 247
6.5 RBW on dark matter and dark energy 249
6.6 Summary 264
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 6 267
6.7 Introduction 267
6.8 Motivations for quantum gravity revisited 267
6.9 RBW and its ancestors 269
6.10 The problem of time 275
6.11 Local beables 276
6.12 Stuck in the dynamical paradigm: RBW to the rescue 279
6.13 Summary 282
Foundational Physics for Chapter 6 284
Part III Adynamical Explanation: Time as Experienced
7 Conscious Experience and the Block Universe 297
7.1 Introduction 297
7.2 On the incompatibility of experience with the Block Universe 298
7.3 The hard problem in a block universe 316
7.3.1 The hard problem now 316
7.3.2 The generation problem: Radical emergence
versus panpsychism 322
7.3.3 The generation problem in a block universe 333
8 Relational Blockworld: Experience, Time, and Space
Reintegrated 348
8.1 Introduction 348
8.2 Setting the stage: Neutral monism, the generation problem,
and time as experienced 349
8.3 Relational Blockworld and neutral monism: The generation
problem and time as experienced explained 357
8.4 The Direction of time 366
8.5 Neutral monism, time as experienced, extended cognitive
science, and phenomenology 370
xii Contents
8.6 Relational Blockworld: Time5 freedom^ and spontaneity 379
8.7 The neutral presence: Reconciling the ant’s-eye perspective
with a view from the God’s-eye perspective 387
8.8 Conclusion 392
Coda for Ants 393
References 399
Index 423
Contents
Part I Overview
Overture for Ants 3
1 Introduction 10
1.1 Dynamical versus adynamical explanation 10
1.2 The impasse 20
1.3 How did we get here? 29
1.4 God’s-eye physics to the rescue 39
Foundational Physics for Chapter 1 46
Part II Adynamical Explanation: Physics
2 The Block Universe from Special Relativity 53
2.1 Introduction 53
2.2 Abridged introduction to special relativity 55
2.3 Relativity of simultaneity 56
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 2 62
2.4 Introduction 62
2.5 The argument from the relativity of simultaneity 65
2.5.1 General outline and definition of terms 65
2.5.2 RoS argument 68
2.6 Presentist points of contention 70
2.6.1 Deflationary objections: No presentist/eternalist
distinction 71
2.6.2 Compatibilist and incompatibilist objections 72
2.7 Response to objection 73
2.7.1 Defining terms: Establishing a metaphysical
presentist/eternalist distinction 73
2.7.2 The transitivity of reality 77
2.7.3 Against the point presentist 79
2.7.4 Preferred foliations in spacetime 81
2.7.5 The spatial presentist: Absurdity in incomp atibilist
presentism? 84
2.8 Conclusion 85
Appendix A: Against the dynamical interpretation of special relativity 86
Appendix B: Objection to RoS argument from a preferred frame or
time as fundamental 88
Foundational Physics for Chapter 2 95
x Contents
3 Resolving Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes from
General Relativity 99
3.1 Introduction 99
3.2 Abridged introduction to general relativity 103
3.3 Big Bang cosmology and its inexplicable initial conditions 105
3.4 The paradoxes of closed timelike curves 115
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 3 122
3.5 Introduction 122
3.6 General relativity and the block universe 122
3.7 The Big Bang and the Past Hypothesis in the dynamical universe 125
Foundational Physics for Chapter 3 128
4 Relational Blockworld and Quantum Mechanics 136
4.1 Introduction 136
4.2 Abridged introduction to quantum mechanics 138
4.3 Quantum superposition, entanglement, and quantum nonlocality 143
4.4 Experimental instantiations of quantum weirdness 149
4.5 RBW on the interpretational issues of quantum mechanics 159
4.6 RBW and quantum information theory 167
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 4 171
4.7 Introduction 171
4.8 Contextual emergence defined 171
4.9 RBW and ontological spatiotemporal contextuality: A subset
of ontological contextual emergence 184
4.10 A realist, psi-epistemic account 191
Foundational Physics for Chapter 4 198
4.11 The Schrodinger equation 198
4.12 The Mermin experiment explained via RBW 200
4.13 The adynamical global constraint of RBW 203
4.14 RBW analysis of the twin-slit experiment 209
5 Relational Blockworld and Quantum Field Theory 214
5.1 Introduction 214
5.2 A brief history of unification 215
5.3 Abridged introduction to quantum field theory 219
5.4 An adynamical approach to particle physics 222
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 5 226
5.5 Introduction 226
5.6 Gauge invariance, gauge fixing, and the Aharonov-Bohm
effect 227
5.7 Regularization and renormalization 229
5.8 Poincaré invariance, inequivalent representations,
and Haag’s theorem 230
Foundational Physics for Chapter 5 233
Contents xi
5.9 Classical field theory and QFT 233
5.10 Gauge invariance 23 5
6 Relational Blockworld Approach to Unification
and Quantum Gravity 236
6.1 Introduction 236
6.2 Explaining the need for quantum gravity 237
6.3 RBW on quantum gravity and unification 238
6.4 Black hole firewall paradox 247
6.5 RBW on dark matter and dark energy 249
6.6 Summary 264
Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 6 267
6.7 Introduction 267
6.8 Motivations for quantum gravity revisited 267
6.9 RBW and its ancestors 269
6.10 The problem of time 275
6.11 Local beables 276
6.12 Stuck in the dynamical paradigm: RBW to the rescue 279
6.13 Summary 282
Foundational Physics for Chapter 6 284
Part III Adynamical Explanation: Time as Experienced
7 Conscious Experience and the Block Universe 297
7.1 Introduction 297
7.2 On the incompatibility of experience with the Block Universe 298
7.3 The hard problem in a block universe 316
7.3.1 The hard problem now 316
7.3.2 The generation problem: Radical emergence
versus panpsychism 322
7.3.3 The generation problem in a block universe 333
8 Relational Blockworld: Experience, Time, and Space
Reintegrated 348
8.1 Introduction 348
8.2 Setting the stage: Neutral monism, the generation problem,
and time as experienced 349
8.3 Relational Blockworld and neutral monism: The generation
problem and time as experienced explained 357
8.4 The Direction of time 366
8.5 Neutral monism, time as experienced, extended cognitive
science, and phenomenology 370
xii Contents
8.6 Relational Blockworld: Time5 freedom^ and spontaneity 379
8.7 The neutral presence: Reconciling the ant’s-eye perspective
with a view from the God’s-eye perspective 387
8.8 Conclusion 392
Coda for Ants 393
References 399
Index 423
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