> My intuition is that the overall flow of time really could be like the rotation of the sky every day. It’s a majestic, immense phenomenon, but it’s actually an illusion. This is a totally perspectival understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. It’s real in the same sense that the rotating sky is real, but it’s real only with respect to us.
And later:
> Our community has wasted a lot of time searching after speculative ideas. What we need instead is to digest the knowledge we already have. And to do that, we need philosophy. Philosophers help us not to find the right answers to given questions, but to find the right questions to better conceptualize reality.
I think it’s odd that a physicists proposes a new theory without suggesting experiments that could falsify the theory.
That second quote hits hard. Physics got so good at answering questions that people forgot to check if they were asking the right ones. Same thing happens in tech - we're really good at optimizing for metrics, terrible at asking if those metrics matter.
This falls in line with the absolute rarity of questioning your own assumptions. In my experience few do.
The amount of people looking outward only is too damn high, as the saying goes.
pretty much all experiments that could have been done were done
and you can rearrange equations to make them better fit together without needing new experiments