The March of Time [recurso electrónico] 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."--pub. desc Front Matter....Pages i-ix Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries....Pages 1-5 Time and Cosmology....Pages 7-87 Flux and Stasis....Pages 89-168 Symmetry and Asymmetry....Pages 169-256 Conclusion....Pages 257-259 Back Matter....Pages 261-284