Speaker
Jenann Ismael
(Johns Hopkins University)
Description
Lee’s most philosophical work is a probing challenge to the "timeless" view prevailing in much of physics. I’’ll say why I think he is right that the idea of the universe as a fixed totality of events is a mirage, and one that arises– as he argued – from extending techniques appropriate for open subsystems to the universe as a whole. Time (for any system in the universe) is irresolubly open-ended, ongoing, and incomplete.
External references
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