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| author | Valente, Mario Bacelar |
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| contents | With special relativity, we seem to be facing a conundrum. It is a very well-tested theory; in this way, the Minkowski spacetime must be "capturing" essential features of space and time. However, its geometry seems to be incompatible with any sort of global notion of time. We might only have local notions of now (present moment) and time flow, at best. In this note, we will explore the possibility that a pretty much global notion of now (and time flow) might be hiding in plain sight in the geometry of the Minkowski spacetime. |
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| spellingShingle | A note on the notion of now and time flow in special relativity Valente, Mario Bacelar History and Philosophy of Physics With special relativity, we seem to be facing a conundrum. It is a very well-tested theory; in this way, the Minkowski spacetime must be "capturing" essential features of space and time. However, its geometry seems to be incompatible with any sort of global notion of time. We might only have local notions of now (present moment) and time flow, at best. In this note, we will explore the possibility that a pretty much global notion of now (and time flow) might be hiding in plain sight in the geometry of the Minkowski spacetime. |
| title | A note on the notion of now and time flow in special relativity |
| topic | History and Philosophy of Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04450 |