New Theory of Spacetime: Is Time the 4th Dimension?

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http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/spacetime-has-no-time-dimension-new-theory-claims-that-time-is-not-the-4th-dimension.html

I'm sorry for being so clueless, but isn't that article basically saying exactly what special relativity said in the first place? That there is no absolute time? It seems to me that the science is more or less the same, but with the addition of dopey philosophy.

Thoughts?

 

[HallsofIvy]

Yes, allowing for the fact that this is a newspaper or magazine popularization of what was said, rather than was actually said, that appears to be exactly what happened- they are just rephrasing the theory of relativity. Of course if a (locally) well known scientist were to announce that "2+ 2= 4", the (local) newspapers would jump all over it.