caa a22 4500 46788708X CHVBK 20180406152737.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10714-006-0332-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10714-006-0332-z Ellis George Mathematics Department, University of Cape Town, Ronde bosch, South Africa aut Physics in the real universe: time and spacetime [Elektronische Daten] [George Ellis] The Block Universe idea, representing spacetime as a fixed whole, suggests the flow of time is an illusion: the entire universe just is, with no special meaning attached to the present time. This paper points out that this view, in essence represented by usual space time diagrams, is based on time- reversible microphysical laws, which fail to capture essential features of the time-irreversible macro-physical behaviour and the development of emergent complex systems, including life, which exist in the real universe. When these are taken into account, the unchanging block universe view of spacetime is best replaced by an evolving block universe which extends as time evolves, with the potential of the future continually becoming the certainty of the past; spacetime itself evolves, as do the entities within it. However, this time evolution is not related to any preferred surfaces in spacetime; rather it is associated with the evolution of proper time along families of world lines. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2006 General Relativity and Gravitation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/12(2006-12-01), 1797-1824 0001-7701 38:12<1797 2006 38 10714 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-006-0332-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-006-0332-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ellis George Mathematics Department, University of Cape Town, Ronde bosch, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- General Relativity and Gravitation Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 38/12(2006-12-01), 1797-1824 0001-7701 38:12<1797 2006 38 10714 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer