Julian Barbour

Julian Barbour is an independent theoretical physicist and former visiting professor of physics at the University of Oxford, UK, who has spent more than 50 years researching quantum gravity and the history of science. He received his PhD degree on the foundations of Einstein’s general theory of relativity from the University of Cologne in 1968, and has written three books: The Discovery of Dynamics, on the history of Newtonian physics, The End of Time, in which he argues that time is an illusion, and The Janus Point, which offers a new perspective on time. In 2008, he received a research grant from the Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI to develop his framework of shape dynamics; he has been an active member of FQxI's research community, ever since.