In The Janus Point renowned physicist Julian Barbour presents a major new solution to one of the most profound questions in physics - what is time? - with ground-breaking implications for the origin ...

Albert Einstein stood common sense on its head when he proclaimed time to be just another dimension, like height, width and depth, and went on to declare that it can be stretched and warped like taffy ...

Julian Barbour cuts an unlikely figure for a radical. We sip afternoon tea at his farmhouse in the sleepy English village of South Newington, and he playfully quotes Faust: That I may understand ...

Time seems to stand still in South Newington, a secluded village ringed by rolling green hills about 20 miles north of Oxford, England. The 1,000-year-old baptismal font in the town's church, the ...

“It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something,” Charles Dickens once observed. For Julian Barbour, those musings most often involve the nature of space and time. Barbour, ...

antihero, Billy Pilgrim, can see the whole of time at once. That Vonnegut’s story is a must for physicist Julian Barbour isn’t too surprising. Seeing all time at once is the thesis of his own book The ...

In his look at time, Julian Barbour states that “we have no choice but to be swept from past to future” (6 March, p 46). I propose a line of thinking where we aren’t swept from past to future, but ...

The received view in physics is that the direction of time is provided by the second law of thermodynamics, according to which the passage of time is measured by ever-increasing ...