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The march of time : evolving conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries

By Weinert , Friedel

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2013
ISBN
3642353460, 978-3-642-35346-8, 978-3-642-35347-5, 3642353479
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8878061 bytes)
Pages
284\289
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Dynamical Systems and Complexitygeneral;History of Science;History of Philosophy;SPhilosophy of Science;Popular Science

Description

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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