03410nam 2200553Ia 450 991043822940332120200520144314.03-642-35347-910.1007/978-3-642-35347-5(CKB)2670000000342711(EBL)1082895(OCoLC)838502145(SSID)ssj0000880251(PQKBManifestationID)11542518(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000880251(PQKBWorkID)10873307(PQKB)10828573(DE-He213)978-3-642-35347-5(MiAaPQ)EBC1082895(PPN)169138615(EXLCZ)99267000000034271120130422d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe march of time evolving conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries /Freidel Weinert1st ed. 2013.Heidelberg ;New York Springer20131 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-642-43717-6 3-642-35346-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.TimeHistoryDiscoveries in scienceHistoryTimeHistory.Discoveries in scienceHistory.523.1MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910438229403321The march of time4191379UNINA