The birth of spacetime atoms as the passage of time

Fay Dowker

The birth of spacetime atoms as the passage of time

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arxiv 1405.3492 v1 pith:4VXSWV6C submitted 2014-05-14 gr-qc hep-th

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The view that the passage of time is physical finds expression in the classical sequential growth models of Rideout and Sorkin in which a discrete spacetime grows by the partially ordered accretion of new spacetime atoms.

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