Lynds' paper "Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Continuity" seeks to confront our perception of time again. According to Lynds, time is an illusion and the notion of divisible units of time (like chronons) would be absurd. Reality is made up of sequences of events happening in relation to one another.
Ironically, the biggest leaps in science came from how we have defined time. Believe me, we sure have come a long way. Newton required his definition of time to set the foundation of physics for five centuries. Einstein turned everything upside down by incorporating time into another dimension. Now we are being confronted with the notion of no such thing as time at all? Our mathematics will definitely crumble (and most probably go through hell too).
Simple isn't? If you want to make it big in the world of science, don't go with the flow. Go the big bang approach by shaking the very foundation of our modern scientific world. And how do we do that? Even simpler... proof dear Einstein wrong and you may well be on your way to international stardom. Probably a status symbol as sexy as Aerosmith himself.
And if he (Lynds) is right, the world might be revolving around him sooner than before he even knew it. Hmmm, time to pick up my physics book again... never know when that may come in handy in the future.
But one thing is highly plausible. Lynds may still be able to make a name for himself if his deal with Heide Lange, the literary agent for Dan Brown's successful Da Vinci Code, comes through.
WIRED June 2005
PS: In the meantime, probably I will try to contemplate on the theory of everything, holy grail of science......................... nah, dream on.
