LEADER 03912nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910792589103321 005 20230725023555.0 010 $a0-19-977655-5 010 $a0-19-970211-X 010 $a1-283-09637-4 010 $a9786613096371 035 $a(CKB)2670000000025226 035 $a(EBL)3054042 035 $a(OCoLC)638330535 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000409884 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12138839 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000409884 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10347981 035 $a(PQKB)11387820 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000076146 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3054042 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3054042 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457030 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309637 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7034095 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7034095 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000025226 100 $a20090417d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEverywhere and everywhen$b[electronic resource] $eadventures in physics and philosophy /$fNick Huggett 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (234 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-537950-0 311 $a0-19-537951-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""1 A Longish Introduction: The Problem of Change""; ""1.1 Melissus's Paradox""; ""1.2 What Is Change?""; ""1.3 Laws""; ""1.4 Spacetime Today""; ""2 Zeno's Paradoxes""; ""2.1 The Dichotomy Paradox""; ""2.2 'Supertasks'""; ""3 Zeno's Arrow Paradox""; ""3.1 The Paradox""; ""3.2 What Philosophy Can Teach Physics""; ""4 The Shape of Space I: Topology""; ""4.1 An End to Space?""; ""4.2 Neither Bounded Nor Infinite""; ""4.3 What Physics Can Teach Philosophy""; ""5 Beyond the Third Dimension?""; ""5.1 Multidimensional Life""; ""5.2 More Than Three Dimensions?"" 327 $a""8.5 Where Is Geometry?""""9 What Is Space?""; ""9.1 Space=Matter""; ""9.2 Relational Space""; ""9.3 Absolute Space""; ""9.4 Relational Space Redux""; ""9.5 What Physics and Philosophy Can Teach Each Other""; ""10 Time""; ""10.1 Time versus Space""; ""10.2 Nowism""; ""10.3 A Moving Now?""; ""10.4 McTaggart's Argument""; ""10.5 Passing Time in a Block Universe""; ""11 Time and Tralfamadore""; ""11.1 The Mind's Worldline""; ""11.2 Experience of Space versus Time""; ""11.3 Another Arrow""; ""11.4 Physics and the Philosophy of Perception""; ""12 Time Travel""; ""12.1 What Is Time Travel?"" 327 $a""12.2 Is Time Travel Possible?""""12.3 The Problem with Time Travel""; ""12.4 Possible and Impossible Time Travel""; ""12.5 The Philosophy and Physics of Time Travel""; ""13 Why Can't I Stop My Younger Self from Time Traveling?""; ""13.1 Physics Might Stop Me. . .""; ""13.2 . . . and If Not, Logic Will""; ""13.3 My Precise Physical State Stops Me""; ""13.4 Living in a Physical Universe""; ""14 Spacetime and the Theory of Relativity""; ""14.1 Photons and Bullets""; ""14.2 Convention""; ""14.3 Relativitya???When Is Now?""; ""14.4 Relativistic Spacetime""; ""14.5 Relativity of Length"" 327 $a""18.3 Indistinguishable Quarticles?"" 330 8 $aWhy does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. In this book, Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the world, through some of the newest. 606 $aPhysics$xPhilosophy 615 0$aPhysics$xPhilosophy. 676 $a530.01 700 $aHuggett$b Nick$065731 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792589103321 996 $aEverywhere and everywhen$93726705 997 $aUNINA