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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weinert, Friedel. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Science > History.
Science > Philosophy.
Science (General).
Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Popular Science, general.
History of Science.
History of Philosophy.
Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5
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
  • Kants 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 SpaceTime
  • SpaceTime and Invariance
  • The General Theory of Relativity
  • Substantivalism and Relationism About SpaceTime
  • �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.

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