The Background Independence and the Interpretation of the Space as Infinite Time
The subtitle refers to my intention that I would like to think about the background independence in terms of the space as infinite time. Does the thought of space as infinite time modulate the significance of the background-independence?
What is meant by background-independence in physics? Definition quoted by many people as follows: “background independence is a condition in theoretical physics, that requires the defining equations of a theory to be independent of the actual shape of the spacetime and the value of various fields within the spacetime. In particular this means that it must be possible to not refer to a specific coordinate system. In addition, the different spacetime configurations (or background) should be obtained as different solutions of the underlying equations.”1 It expresses the essence of Einstein's intention that the content of the laws of physics must be independent of the coordinate system of any observer.
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1 Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_independence
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