Time to decide

• Autores: Nicolas Gisin
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3074, 2016, págs. 32-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Gisin argues why free will and a flowing time must both exist in science. What irony, then, that the search for scientific truth seemed to kill free will. That started with Newton and his universal law of gravitation. Derived from observations of the solar system bodies, it speaks of a cosmos that operates like clockwork and can be described by deterministic theories. Everything that happens today was set in motion yesterday, and indeed was determined in the initial conditions of the big bang; nothing truly new ever happens. Things became even more inscrutable with Einstein's relativity, which showed that there was no unique definition of simultaneous events. To square that with a deterministic universe, a picture known as the "block universe" emerged.