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There are quite some pop-sci books (by Greene, Smolin, Carroll and others) that deal with the "nature of time". Why does time appear to flow? Why is there a special moment, the "now"? Does simultaneity in SR imply a block universe? Why time-symmetric laws but a time-unsymmetric universe? Does the past exist, but the future not and why? These kind of questions.
But I could not find any good textbooks or papers that give a more precise summary of what physicists think of time. Or just some pages that sum-up the conundrums associated with time.
Or is that just a too philosophical topic for physics to bother with?
(I stumbled upon Ellis "evolving block universe" ideas, which look interesting. But I could not find out what others think about it.)
But I could not find any good textbooks or papers that give a more precise summary of what physicists think of time. Or just some pages that sum-up the conundrums associated with time.
Or is that just a too philosophical topic for physics to bother with?
(I stumbled upon Ellis "evolving block universe" ideas, which look interesting. But I could not find out what others think about it.)