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The Flow of Time in the Theory of Relativity

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  • 1. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain

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According to Dennis Dieks, in the theory of relativity, the «flow of time» results from the succession of events along time-like worldlines.  We have a flow of time per worldline. This leads to a view of now as local to each worldline. In this approach there is no global temporal order of the now-points of different worldlines. For a consistency reason it is imposed a limitation on the assignment of different now-points. Here it is made the claim that this consistency requirement is inbuilt in the theory, and it is presented a detailed analysis of this approach.

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