| 单词 | block universe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblock universe block universe n. Philosophy the universe conceived as resembling an unchanging block, typically being regarded as a unitary closed four-dimensional system of interlocking parts in which there can be neither genuine development nor room for alternative possibilities. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > [noun] > specific block universe1881 plenum1887 expanding universe1931 steady state1948 1881 T. Davidson Let. 24 Dec. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 736 That last remnant of mythology and scholasticism, viz., theism and a block-universe. a1910 W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) xii. 191 It is the famous ‘principle of causality’ which, when combined with the next two principles, is supposed to establish the block universe, and to render the pluralistic hypothesis absurd. 1996 Nature 19 Sept. 228/2 The author..adopts the ‘block universe’ view of spacetime as an objective entity, as opposed to imagining that time is just an artefact of a special human perspective on cosmic events. 2015 V. Vedral in M. Brooks Chance iv. 142 According to Einstein the universe actually exists all at once, and everything that has happened and will happen is already there in what we now call the ‘block universe’. < as lemmas |
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