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The Reality of Time Flow
- Local Becoming in Modern Physics
Engelsk Hardback
The Reality of Time Flow
- Local Becoming in Modern Physics
Engelsk Hardback

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It is commonly held that there is no place for the ''now’ in physics, and also that the passing of time is something subjective, having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with the way reality is. Indeed, the majority of modern theoretical physicists and philosophers of physics contend that the passing of time is incompatible with modern physical theory, and excluded in a fundamental description of physical reality. This book provides a forceful rebuttal of such claims. In successive chapters the author explains the historical precedents of the modern opposition to time flow, giving careful expositions of matters relevant to becoming in classical physics, the special and general theories of relativity, and quantum theory, without presupposing prior expertise in these subjects. Analysing the arguments of thinkers ranging from Aristotle, Russell, and Bergson to the proponents of quantum gravity, he contends that the passage of time, understood as a local becoming of events out of those in their past at varying rates, is not only compatible with the theories of modern physics, but implicit in them. 

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
287
ISBN-13:
9783030159467
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030159469
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
6 maj 2019
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
6 maj 2019
Forfatter(e):
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