Peter Lynds (born May 17, 1975) is a New Zealander who drew attention in 2003 with the publication of a physics paper about time, mechanics and Zeno's paradoxes.
Lynds attended university for only 6 months. He published an article entitled "Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity" in Foundations of Physics Letters. The paper put forward a solution to Zeno's paradoxes based on the idea that instants, instantaneous magnitudes, determined positions, and time itself, do not actually exist. The controversial paper was detailed in several media outlets. It was reported shortly thereafter that the ideas in this paper were entirely preceded by Henri Bergson in his 1896 book Matter and Memory, evidently unbeknownst to Lynds or his paper's referees.
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