Relativity theory does not imply that the future already exists: a counterexample
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
It is often said that the relativistic fusion of time with space rules out genuine change or ``becoming''. I offer the classical sequential growth models of causal set theory as counterexamples.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0703098,
title = {Relativity theory does not imply that the future already exists: a counterexample},
author = {Rafael D. Sorkin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0703098},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
plainTeX, 12 pages, no figures. To appear in Vesselin Petkov (editor), Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World (Springer 2007, in press). Most current version is available at http://www.physics.syr.edu/~sorkin/some.papers (or wherever my home-page may be)