C043Time and becoming
McTaggart’s B-series assumes an earlier/later ordering of events, while relativistic record networks can contain events with no invariant earlier/later relation because they are spacelike separated. 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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C044Time and becoming
Presentism and a growing block commonly appeal to a privileged boundary between what is actual and what is not yet actual. For spatially separated events, relativity makes the physical definition of such a boundary nontrivial. 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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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.
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C046Time and becoming
Thermal time is sensitive to the state and observable algebra, so it need not provide one universal synchronization across all observers. DTT’s outer completion likewise begins with accessibility and must explain how local flows can be compared. 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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C047Time and becoming
The two-state formalism uses preparation, intermediate measurement and final selection in a specified protocol. These stages can be causally ordered without assigning every distant event a universal time. 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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C048Time and becoming
Whitehead’s many occasions and their relations provide a philosophical setting in which becoming need not be pictured as one universal present moving across all space. 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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