C049Time and becoming
A periodic sequence can be described using B-relations even though a display returns to the same value. McTaggart’s distinction helps reveal why recurrence of a property is not recurrence of the same temporal position. 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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C050Time and becoming
Presentism can describe a succession of recurring presents, while a growing block can contain many distinct repetitions of a similar event. Neither position requires the entire universe to return to an earlier state. 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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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.
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C052Time and becoming
A modular flow can have periodic behavior in finite examples when the relevant spectral differences are commensurate, but a generic flow need not close. 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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C053Time and becoming
Preselection and postselection can select a system that returns to its initial state, but the laboratory record of the return makes the whole experiment historically different from its beginning. 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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C054Time and becoming
Whitehead’s process philosophy allows recurring patterns across different occasions without making the occasions numerically identical. This is close to DTT’s idea that renewed generation can sustain a stable world. 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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C448New research questions
A cyclic internal phase and a compact physical time coordinate can have radically different causal consequences. An explicit circle example explains why SMM/DTT must identify which kind of compactification it uses. The comparison preserves inner recurrence while making the physical requirements for causality and clock evolution clear.
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