The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics

PART 1

The Big Picture in Simple Terms

As explained in the Preface, I start with three chapters in which I have attempted to present my main ideas with the minimum of technical details. The main aim is to introduce a definite way of thinking about instants of time without having to suppose that they belong to something that flows relentlessly forward. I regard instants of time as real things, identifying them with possible instantaneous arrangements of all the things in the universe. They are configurations of the universe. In themselves, these configurations are perfectly static and timeless. But how and why can something static and timeless be experienced as intensely dynamic and temporal?

That is what I hope to explain in simple terms in these first three chapters.