Everywhere and everywhen [[electronic resource] ] : adventures in physics and philosophy / / Nick Huggett

• Autore: Huggett Nick
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 530.01
• Soggetto topico: Physics - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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?"" ; ""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?"" ; ""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 Relativityâ€?When Is Now?""; ""14.4 Relativistic Spacetime""; ""14.5 Relativity of Length"" ; ""18.3 Indistinguishable Quarticles?""
• Sommario/riassunto: Why 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Everywhere and everywhen
• ISBN: 0-19-977655-5; 0-19-970211-X; 1-283-09637-4; 9786613096371
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792589103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II