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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Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | IX, 284 p. 71 illus. online resource. |
ISBN: | 9783642353475 |