This was the aim of physicist Julian Barbour. Working without an academic position, supporting his family by translating Russian, Barbour has developed a theory of physics that removes the need for time at all. His ideas are articulated in his ground-breaking book The End of Time, published in 1999. ‘Nothing happens; there is being but no becoming. The flow of time and motion are illusions.’ A number of physicists within mainstream academia have taken his ideas very seriously.
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