rather nonstandard language involved, where if I understand it right it appears that Dr. E's idea of an expanding space is just a way of describing the timelike region enclosed by a light cone. So my sense is that this is just a somewhat nonstandard way of looking at relativity I am not how Barbour's article is inconsistent. It was one of clearest articles in the bunch. To thank FQXI, I will be hosting a keg party in my brand new forum on March 17th. Wahooo! We will be celebrating our newfound free will, time, and all its arrows and assymetries! ttp://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topi\\... If you wnat to celbrate multiverses, parallel universes, and bouncing universes, feel free, but personally I'm not into the hard liquor and hangovers. And although you are of course invited Anthony, I yet maintain that discussions regarding MDT are highly relevant on this forum too, as long as your organization chooses to retain its title and mission statement. Thin about the "giant void" that would exist without MDT!! You say, "Please confine future postings about MDT to that forum rather than others such as this one to which it is not directly relevant." How is MDT--a theory that proposes a novel postulate and equation underlying both relativity and quantum mechanics--a theory from which entropy and time and all its arrows naturally emerge, as well as quantum nonlocality and entanglement, not relevant to a discussion pertaining to time? Could you please elaborate on this for everyone? My fanbase is