steven comments on Relative Configuration Space - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 May 2008 09:25AM

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Comment author: steven 26 May 2008 12:28:40PM 0 points [-]

I've skimmed a few Barbour papers and I don't see how he gets to claim space is "relational" when he has g as a fundamental element of his theory. (Here g is the metric of space but not of time; no relation to the above commenter :-) )