C003Time and becoming
A block universe can contain an ordered sequence of all completed records, including every observer’s changing knowledge. DTT’s claim that records arise through inner production is therefore not contradicted merely by representing those records as a spacetime whole. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C009Time and becoming
Eternalism does not require a thermodynamically symmetric universe. A four-dimensional history can have low-entropy conditions toward one end and records pointing in the corresponding direction. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
C015Time and becoming
A block universe can be discrete or continuous. A lattice of events and a smooth manifold are different mathematical structures, but either can be treated as a complete history. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C021Time and becoming
A generative explanation and a block representation can answer different questions about the same world. A block states which events and relations occur; a constructive theory explains how those relations follow from a smaller set of source rules. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
C027Time and becoming
Lorentzian spacetime and split-complex numbers share a useful indefinite quadratic structure in a two-component sector. That mathematical affinity concerns transformations and invariants, whereas eternalism concerns the reality of events at different times. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
C033Time and becoming
A block can contain both reversible microscopic laws and an irreversible-looking macroscopic history. The difference is encoded in states, correlations and boundary conditions across the history. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
C039Time and becoming
Relativistic clocks can be represented along worldlines in a block, where proper time depends on the path and metric. DTT’s source-generated clock must recover those relations if its outer world is to agree with relativistic physics. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
C045Time and becoming
A relativistic block naturally accommodates different simultaneity slices through the same set of events. DTT can agree at the level of outer observations if completion produces local records related by the usual transformations. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
C051Time and becoming
A block may contain periodic trajectories, quasiperiodic motion or a universe with no exact recurrence. Eternalism does not decide among them. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
C057Time and becoming
An eternalist can explain why every observer experiences a local now by locating the observer’s state within a complete history. DTT asks whether that explanation omits the production of the state itself. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
Comparative article · 5 min read↗
