ISBN:
9783642353475
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (IX, 284 p. 71 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Weinert, Friedel, 1950 - The march of time
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Science History
;
Science Philosophy
;
Science (General)
;
Philosophy
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Science History
;
Science Philosophy
;
Science (General)
;
Zeit
;
Naturphilosophie
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Zeit
;
Naturphilosophie
;
Naturwissenschaften
Abstract:
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
Description / 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5
