Mark's Reviews > The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe

The author puts forth the theory that time is just an illusion and does not exist. According to this idea, all events
are just a series of "nows" that our minds string together as a movie, giving us the illusion of time moving forward.
As I understand it, each "now" is like a parallel/different world (or analogous to a different/parallel world) along the
lines of Everett's 'many-worlds hypothesis'.

Getting into a little more (technical) detail, Barbour seems to believe that the universe is governed by static quantum
cosmology that is governed by the static (time-independent) Schroedinger equation or a static Wheeler-Dewitt type equation,
"which may have one or many solutions, and that each of its well-behaved solutions concentrates its probability density on
time capsules".

At least at a human common-sense instinctual level, it's hard to believe that we are living in a timeless universe, and Barbour's theory
is not accepted by the physics community at large ...