High School Is Time Emerging? Physicists' Experiments & Many-Worlds Interpretation

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The discussion centers on the concept that time may be an emergent phenomenon arising from quantum entanglement, as suggested by recent experiments. These experiments indicate that time appears static to an outside observer while flowing for those within the universe, a notion contested by physicist Ron Maimon who labels it as "press nonsense." The legitimacy of this research is supported by its publication in Phys. Rev. A, specifically the paper by E. Moreva et al. titled "Time from quantum entanglement: An experimental illustration." Additionally, Sean Carroll's work on the emergence of spacetime is referenced, highlighting the speculative nature of these theories.

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I saw a post recently which said that time is an emerging phenomenon from quantum entanglement, physicists conducted an experiment which shows that time is static for an outside observer of the universe and only flows due to entanglement for inside observers. Does this imply that if entanglement didn't exist, time wouldn't? However, physicist Ron Maimon stated that this experiment is "It's press nonsense. It's "quantum collapse" and "measurement" emerging from entanglement, i.e. many-worlds interpretation"

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxi...w-time-emerges-from-entanglement-d5d3dc850933

Sean Carroll has a post which talks of spacetime being emerging too.

http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2016/07/18/space-emerging-from-quantum-mechanics/
 
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TheQuestionGuy14 said:
I saw a post recently which said that time is an emerging phenomenon from quantum entanglement, physicists conducted an experiment which shows that time is static for an outside observer of the universe...
I think that automatically doesn't make any sense since there IS no such thing as "an outside observer".

Sean Carroll has a post which talks of spacetime being emerging too.
Which, as he states, is entirely speculative.
 
DrClaude said:
has cited this paper in one of his articles (to which I unfortunately don't have access).
It's on Arxiv but it's just mentioned in passing.
(For related approaches, not directly referring to many worlds, see also [45, 46, 47, 48].)
 
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