Such diverse people as Lee Smolin and Lubos Motl think it's an interesting idea (and having those two agree the sky is blue would be remarkable), but that just puts it as "fringe" rather than "crank". And you could say about the same about string theory.
it's an interesting idea
Absolutely. Unfortunately, this is just not enough in order to become a viable model.
that just puts it as "fringe" rather than "crank".
I don't think that anyone asserted that timeless physics is a crank idea, since there is no contradiction to the established science. Fringe is indeed a good description, due to the reasons I mentioned.
And you could say about the same about string theory.
I wish I could. String theory, while being an out-of-proportion popular piece of math which took over high-energy phy...
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