Illusiveness of the problem of time

Abstract

The essay is devoted to the problem of time in the context of quantum cosmology, which acquires a philosophical level to date. At an example of the minisuperspace model, we show that this problem is illusive in the sense that it does not prevent to calculate mean values of the operators over the quantum state of the universe. Contrariwise, the different approaches to the description of these time-dependent mean values give similar results.