Abstract
The main thread of chapter 3 introduces general relativity (GR), Big Bang cosmology, and closed timelike curves, showing how the ant’s-eye view leads to the puzzle of the creation of the universe, the horizon problem, the flatness problem, the low entropy problem, and the paradoxes of closed time-like curves. All these puzzles, problems, and paradoxes of the dynamical universe are resolved using the God’s-eye view of the adynamical block universe. Accordingly, Einstein’s equations of GR are not understood dynamically, but rather adynamically, that is, as a global self-consistency constraint between the spacetime metric and stress–energy tensor throughout the spacetime manifold. This is “spatiotemporal ontological contextuality” as applied to GR. The philosophical nuances such as the status of the block universe argument in GR and debates about the Past Hypothesis have been placed in Philosophy of Physics for Chapter 3. The associated formalism and computations are in Foundational Physics for Chapter 3.
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