About six months ago, Julian Barbour did a introductory-level talk, attempting to explain the ideas in his book 'The End of Time'. The topic of his book, Yudkowsky has blogged about several times, but to the non-mathsy non-physicists, this talk might be a good introduction. It's very easygoing, and has also persuaded me to buy his book.
http://ww3.tvo.org/video/185595/julian-barbour-does-time-exist
If someone has already linked it, please say so.
Yudkowsky's related posts can mostly be found by typing 'Julian Barbour' in the search bar.
The interesting bits (i.e., not classical physics or philosophy) start around 38:00 with the Wheeler-DeWitt equation.