Episode 08
The Quantum and Relativistic Universe
When Time stops being a background
Relativity's proper time, entanglement and decoherence, Many-Worlds, Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology, and Orch-OR as contested bridges between mind and interval.
Beats
- Clocks run differently in gravity wells and at speed.
- Measurement as a cut in a quantum history.
- CCC: aeons that meet when massive scale fades.
Terms
- Proper time
- Time along a worldline, measured by a clock that takes that path.
- Decoherence
- The leaking of quantum superposition into the environment.
Discussion
- If two clocks disagree, which one is 'wrong'?
- Does a cosmology without a first moment still need a calendar?
Classroom check
In relativity, the time a clock measures along its path is called: