In the example of the pulse and the candle chandelier, we will not have the pulse and the candelabrum evolving in time, but only equations which tell us how the two variables evolve with respect to each other. That is to say, equations which tell us directly how many pulse-beats there are in an oscillation, without mentioning t. ‘Physics without time’ is physics in which we speak only of the pulse and the chandelier, without mentioning time.

