Julian Barbour, born in 1937, is a British physicist who works on quantum gravity and the history of science. He is best known for developing a theory of timeless physics, arguing in his 1999 book The End of Time that the flow of time we perceive is an illusion and that each moment exists complete in its own right. He also researches Machian physics and, with Bruno Bertotti, co-developed the best matching technique for describing gravitational effects without treating spacetime as a fixed background.
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Since receiving his PhD degree on the foundations of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity at the University of Cologne in 1968, Barbour has supported himself and his family without an academic position,
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Julian Barbour (; born 1937) is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.
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