Tim Maudlin, “Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time” (Princeton UP, 2012)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
00:00
The Twins Paradox in Physics
In previous work on this, you found the unsatisfyinger that you wanted to tweak or edit. And so how does your treatment of the twins paradox in this book importantly differ from that? Okay, so we can step back a second to Newton and for all of classical physics. He writes about this very clearly. His conception of time was that there are instances or moments of time that are shared or spread throughout the entire universe. That's what turns out not to be true in the theory of relativity.
Play episode from 16:02
Transcript
