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    EPR and the 'Passage' of Time

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    Publication date
    2013-09
    Author
    Weinert, Friedel
    Keyword
    Covariance; Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations (EPR); Entropy; Entropic clocks; Eternalism; Invariance; ‘Passage’ of time; Presentism; Possibilism
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    Abstract
    The essay revisits the puzzle of the ‘passage’ of time in relation to EPR-type measurements and asks what philosophical consequences can be drawn from them. Some argue that the lack of invariance of temporal order in the measurement of a space-like related EPR pair, under relativistic motion, casts serious doubts on the ‘reality’ of the lapse of time. Others argue that certain features of quantum mechanics establish a tensed theory of time – understood here as Possibilism or the growing block universe. The paper analyzes the employment of frame-invariant entropic clocks in a relativistic setting and argues that tenselessness does not imply timelessness. But this conclusion does not support a tensed theory of time, which requires a preferred foliation. It is argued that the only reliable inference from the EPR example and the use of entropic clocks is an inference not just to a Leibnizian order of the succession of events but a frame-invariant order according to some selected clocks.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/11903
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    Accepted Manuscript
    Citation
    Weinert F (2013) EPR and the ‘Passage’ of Time. Philosophia Naturalis. 50(2): 173-199.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.3196/003180215815620378
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