“If we formulate the fundamental theory of nature in a timeless language, we have then the problem of recovering the familiar notion of time.”Carlo Rovelli "Forget time" (Aug, 2008)
“General relativity has changed our understanding of space and time. ...The spacetime of general relativity ...is likely to be just a classical approximation that loses its meaning in the quantum theory, for the same reason the trajectory of a particle does.”Carlo Rovelli "Forget time" (Aug, 2008)
“I... interpret mechanics as a theory of relations between variables, rather than the theory of the evolution of variables in time.”Carlo Rovelli "Forget time" (Aug, 2008)
“[I]n a fundamental description of nature we must "forget time"... this can be done in the classical and in the quantum theory.”Carlo Rovelli "Forget time" (Aug, 2008)