La ilusión del cambio en un universo relativista atemporal
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El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar la posición de Julian Barbour, según
la cual vivimos en un universo atemporal, donde el devenir temporal y, con ello,
el cambio son sólo una gigantesca ilusión cósmica. Desde el punto de vista de la
física, se argumentará que su reconstrucción atemporal de la relatividad general
no es equivalente a la teoría general de la relatividad tal como fuera formulada por
Einstein. Desde un punto de vista filosófico, se considerarán las posibles motivaciones
del autor para postular un universo donde el tiempo y el cambio no son más
que apariencias subjetivas de una realidad atemporal.
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