British physicist who has argued that time does not exist as a fundamental feature of the universe — the appearance of time arises from a static configuration space (Platonia).
The End of Time: all possible configurations of the universe exist simultaneously in a timeless configuration space (Platonia); what we experience as time is navigation through this space. Machian mechanics: advocated relational formulations of mechanics in which only ratios of distances matter.
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