Kendall’s Shape Statistics as a Classical Realization of Barbour-type Timeless Records Theory Approach to Quantum Gravity - a podcast by MCMP Team

Edward Anderson (Paris Diderot and Cambridge) gives a talk in the colloquium "Journeys in Platonia: Celebrating 50 Years Since The End of Time" at the 17th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics (29-31 July, 2013) titled "Kendall’s Shape Statistics as a Classical Realization of Barbour-type Timeless Records Theory Approach to Quantum Gravity". Abstract: I already showed that Kendall’s shape geometry work was the geometrical description of Barbour’s relational mechanics’ reduced configuration spaces (alias shape spaces). I now describe the extent to which Kendall’s subsequent statistical application to such as the ‘standing stones problem’ realizes further ideas along the lines of Barbour-type timeless records theories, albeit just at the classical level.

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