{"id":188,"date":"2008-11-25T03:03:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-11-25T03:03:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T03:03:17","slug":"the-existence-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"The existence of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0811.3772\">new paper<\/a> by Sean Carroll asks this question in its title &#8220;What if time really exists?&#8221; I feel reassurred that Carroll thinks it does (hmmm, let me check my watch&#8230; yup, I think it exists, too) but the fact that a paper with this title appears in an archive of theoretical physics papers perhaps illustrates what is so wrong with physics today. To quote Carroll, &#8220;when something is so obvious and important, declaring that it isn&#8217;t real is sure to win points for boldness&#8221;, but have physicists really become this shallow?<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=188' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper by Sean Carroll asks this question in its title &#8220;What if time really exists?&#8221; I feel reassurred that Carroll thinks it does (hmmm, let me check my watch&#8230; yup, I think it exists, too) but the fact that a paper with this title appears in an archive of theoretical physics papers perhaps <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=188' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}