“Julian Barbour, a theoretical physicist, has worked on foundational issues in physics for 35 years. He is responsible for a radical notion of “time capsules which explain how the powerful impression of the passage of time can arise in a timeless world”… Cosmologist Lee Smolin notes that Barbour has presented ‘the most interesting and provocative new idea about time to be proposed in many years. If true, it will change the way we see reality. Barbour is one of the few people who is truly both a scientist and a philosopher.'” The Edge