The March of Time Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries /
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 re...
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.