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The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/6282
Date January 2013
CreatorsWeinert, Friedel
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeBook, No full-text available in the repository

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