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arxiv 2407.18948 v1 pith:ZDLAF3EL submitted 2024-07-11 physics.hist-ph gr-qc

Eugene Y. S. Chua This is my paper · ORCID
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Preparing general relativity for quantization in the Hamiltonian approach leads to the `problem of time,' rendering the world fundamentally timeless. One proposed solution is the `thermal time hypothesis,' which defines time in terms of states representing systems in thermal equilibrium. On this view, time is supposed to emerge thermodynamically even in a fundamentally timeless context. Here, I develop the worry that the thermal time hypothesis requires dynamics -- and hence time -- to get off the ground, thereby running into worries of circularity.

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    RQD claims that observer-relative facts, emergent time, entanglement-built space, integrated information, and decoherence together dissolve quantum paradoxes, but it offers no formal derivation.

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