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Georgina Woodward
Continued- He says that Newton thought their was a direction of time and Newtonian physics has a foliation or slicing of space and time that is global, an event affecting the whole world and universe at once.
T. Maudlin says that in his opinion a return to a singular absolute global/universal foliation is needed by modern physics.
Einstein's relativity, SR and GR completely 'did away with' foliation of time and a singular Now.
T. Maudlin argues that Einstein still thinks there is passage of time, proper time with a direction globally. He argues that Subjectively individual obsevers may disagree, their individual, only local viewpoint is irrelevant to the universal process of evolution accoss time, 'globally'.