PIRSA:10050060  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File, MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): Julian Barbour

Abstract:

Date: 22/05/2010 - 10:40 am

Collection: Laws of Nature: Their Nature and Knowability

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PIRSA:08100040  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File, MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): Julian Barbour

Abstract: Exactly half a century after Minkowski’s justly famous lecture, Dirac’s efforts to quantize gravity led him “to doubt how fundamental the four-dimensional requirement in physics is”. Dirac does not appear to have explored this doubt further, but I shall argue that it needs to be considered s... read more

Date: 01/10/2008 - 2:00 pm

Series: Colloquium

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PIRSA:08090064  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File, MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): Julian Barbour

Abstract: In 1898, Poincaré identified two fundamental issues in the theory of time: 1)What is the basis for saying that a second today is the same as a second tomorrow? 2) How can one define simultaneity at spatially separated points? Poincaré outlined the solution to the first problem { which amounts to a... read more

Date: 28/09/2008 - 10:00 am

Collection: The Clock and the Quantum: Time and Quantum Foundations

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PIRSA:08100033  ( Flash Presentation, Windows Presentation, Windows Video File, MP3 , PDF) Which Format?

Speaker(s): Julian Barbour

Abstract: TBA

Date: 25/09/2008 - 2:00 pm

Series: Quantum Gravity

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