In an interview with Julian Barbour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K49rmobsPcY&feature=youtu.be

he asserted that time can be factored out of Newtonian laws.

This seems dubious to me to say the least, since Newtonian laws describe motion.

Since motion of any body or particle  minimally involves a change of location in space, which in turn involves that arrival at a location cannot precede starting to move at the former location, which de facto involves some form of duration of the process, I fail to see how some time would not have elapsed between both events.

It also seems to me that this is true in classical mechanics, as well as in SR/GR and also in physical reality, or am I missing something on the time issue?

Can someone shed light on what reasoning, presumably grounded on experimentally obtained results that could be referred to, could have led Barbour to come to such a conclusion?

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