Images of Time
Mind, Science, Reality
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 January 2016
- ISBN 9780198718062
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages322 pages
- Size 241x163x23 mm
- Weight 668 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book reviews a great range of Images of Time, that is, theories of time, from a diversity of perspectives: historical, religious, biological, mathematical and scientific. It trains the reader to develop a critical ability to distinguish those Images of Time that are metaphysical and those that could in principle be put to empirical test.
MoreLong description:
Have you ever wondered about Time: what it is or how to discuss it? If you have, then you may have been bewildered by the many different views and opinions in many diverse fields to be found, such as physics, mathematics, philosophy, religion, history, and science fiction novels and films. This book will help you unravel fact from fiction. It provides a broad survey of many of these views, these images of time, covering historical, cultural, philosophical, biological, mathematical and physical images of time, including classical and quantum mechanics, special and general relativity and cosmology.
This book gives you more than just a review of such images. It provides the reader a basis for judging the scientific soundness of these various images. It develops the reader's critical ability to distinguish Images of Time in terms of its contextual completeness. Differentiating between metaphysical images (which cannot be scientifically validated) and those that could, in principle, be put to empirical test. Showing that mathematical and classical mechanical images are more complete, and genuine quantum mechanics based images have the greatest degree of contextual completeness. Through the use of a simple algorithm, the reader can decide the classification of any of the images of time discussed in this book. These distinctions are of particular importance in this day and age, when we are flooded by a plethora of competing Images of Time. Many of these have no scientific basis or empirical support or content. This book will be of value not only to philosophers, scientists and students, but also to the general reader interested in this fundamental topic, because it introduces a method of distinguishing between science fiction and science fact.
There is a great deal of factual information, systematically and concisely presented and appropriately referenced a valuable addition to the literature on the Science of Time taken in the general sense. It deserves a place in any theoretical physics library. I expect it to provoke and stimulate much thought.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Observers and time
Subjective images of time
Cultural images of time
Literary images of time
Objective images of time
Mathematical images of time
Illusionary images of time
Causal images of time
Physics and time
Biological time
The dimensions of time
The architecture of time
Absolute time
The reparametrization of time
Origins of relativity
Special relativity
Generalized transformations
General relativistic time
Time travel
Imaginary time
Irreversible time
Discrete time
Time and quanta
Temporal correlations
Time reversal
Quantized spacetime
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
