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This guy uses rather confusing descriptions of his theories and ideas. I respect his approach but other are much better in explaining these topics.



Rovelli mentions his paper from 2009 with the title 'Forget Time' in the video. The paper can be downloaded from [1].

I enjoyed the presentation. Talking for an hour on this kind of material with just a piece of string and a couple of watches is fairly impressive. The thought experiment with the wooden box and green/red balls (in two size categories unrelated to their colour) was thought provoking.

I'd like to see someone define/construct two sets of macrostates that give a different time scales in a system with one set of microstates. For all I know someone may have actually done that. The paper referenced does have a section on the 'thermal time hypothesis'.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3832




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