A bold paper that been published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters seems set to change the way we think about the nature of time and its relationship to motion and classical and quantum mechanics. The work also appears to provide solutions to Zeno’s paradoxes.

In the paper, “Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity”, Peter Lynds argues that “There’s no such thing as an instant in time or present moment in nature. It’s something entirely subjective that we project onto the world around us. That is, it’s the outcome of brain function and consciousness.”

According to Lynds, the absence of an instant in time and determined relative position, and consequently also velocity, necessarily also means the absence of all other precisely determined physical magnitudes and values at a time, including space and time itself.

Press release: Ground-breaking work in understanding of time