The March of Time : Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries / by Friedel Weinert
| Publisher | (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer) |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Edition | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Authors | *Weinert, Friedel author SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Size | IX, 284 p : online resource |
| Notes | 1 Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries -- Introduction -- 2 Time and Cosmology -- Greek Astronomy -- Plato and Aristotle -- The Need for Physical Time -- Kant’s Cosmology -- Time and Causality -- The Topology of Time -- The Metric of Time -- Some Advances in the Theory of Time in Classical Physics -- Time in Modern Physics -- The Measurement of Time in Quantum Mechanics -- Why Measurement? -- On Permissible Inferences from Scientific Theories -- 3 Flux and Stasis.-Parmenidean Stasis and Heraclitean Flux -- Idealism About Time -- Realism About Time -- Relationism About Time -- The Theory of Relativity and the Block Universe -- Minkowski Spacetime and the Block Universe -- An Alternative Representation of Minkowski Space–Time -- Space–Time and Invariance -- The General Theory of Relativity -- Substantivalism and Relationism About Space–Time -- 4 Symmetry and Asymmetry -- Fundamental Equations and Human Experience -- Entropy and Order -- Reversibility and Irreversibility -- The Role of Boundary Conditions -- The Emergence of Time -- Time in Basic Quantum Mechanics -- Time Travel Scenarios -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose – relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions – that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5 |
| Subjects | LCSH:Philosophy and science LCSH:Popular works LCSH:History LCSH:Philosophy LCSH:Statistical physics LCSH:Dynamical systems FREE:Philosophy of Science FREE:Popular Science, general FREE:History of Science FREE:History of Philosophy FREE:Complex Systems FREE:Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems |
| Classification | LCC:B67 DC23:501 |
| ID | 8000011942 |
| ISBN | 9783642353475 |
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