Overview

This book provides the reader with the most recent scholarly insights into the nature of time - undoubtedly one of the most profound mysteries that science has ever faced. The selected contributions are grouped into four conceptually different yet mutually cohesive chapters, carefully woven into a comprehensive whole that goes well beyond standard treatments. The subjects discussed include the fine structure of psychological time(s) and consciousness, novel algebraic geometrical and number theoretic models of time dimension, different arrows of time, time travel, EPR paradox, quantum non-locality, pregeometry, and a host of relevant epistemological and ontological issues. The book shows that research is becoming necessarily interdisciplinary and does not ignore even such delicate issues as ""altered"" states of consciousness, religion and metaphysics. Although focused primarily on an academic readership, the treatise can be read with profit by anyone fascinated by the enigma of time. A coherent, multidisciplinary sampling of the most up-to-date professional research on the nature of time, addressing four major themes: internal times and consciousness, mathematical approaches to the concept of time, the physicist's view of time, and integrative science's views of time. Essential reading for anyone, scientist or layperson, with a serious interest in the topic.

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Author:   R. Buccheri ,  Metod Saniga ,  William Mark Stuckey
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Volume:   95
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.787kg
ISBN:  

9781402012013

ISBN 10:   1402012012
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   31 March 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Internal Times and Consciousness.- An Overview.- The Human Sense of Time: Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Considerations.- The Parallel-Clock Model: a Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration.- Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans.- Studying Psychological Time with Weber’s Law.- Time and the Problem of Consciousness.- Temporal Displacement.- Discrimination and Sequentialization of Events in Perception.- Time, Consciousness and Quantum Events in Fundamental Spacetime Geometry.- How Time Passes.- Reality, and Those Who Perceive It.- The Conscious Universe.- 2: Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of Time.- An Overview.- Geometry of Time and Dimensionality of Space.- Time in Biology and Physics.- Analysis of the Relationship Between Real and Imaginary Time in Physics.- Clifford Algebra, Geometry and Physics.- The Programs of the Extended Relativity in C-Spaces: Towards Physical Foundations of String Theory.- Time Measurements, 1/F Noise of the Oscillators and Algebraic Numbers.- Internal Time and Innovation.- Quantum Computing: a Way to Break Complexity?.- On the Relational Statistical Space-Time Concept.- Self-organization in Discrete Systems with Fermi-Type Memory.- 3: The Physicist’s View of Time.- An Overview.- Thermodynamic Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time.- Time from Quantum Uncertainty.- The Arrow of Time in Quantum Theories.- Conformai Time in Cosmology.- Acausality and Retrocausality in Four- and Higher-Dimensional General Relativity.- Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality.- Is There More to T?.- Global Causality in Space- Time Universe.- Time at the Origin of the Universe: Fluctuations Between two Possibilities.- Quantum Cellular Automata, the EPR Paradox and the Stages Paradigm.- Planck Scale Physics, Pregeom,etry and the Notionof Time.- Causality as a Casualty of Pregeometry.- 4: Integrative Science’s Views of Time.- An Overview.- The Aristotelian Relation of Time to Motion and to the Human Soul.- The Dynamics of Time and Timelessness: Philosophy, Physics and Prospects for our Life.- Spacetime Holism and the Passage of Time.- The Intelligibility of Nature, the Endophysical Paradigm and the Relationship Between Physical and Psychological Time.- Potential and Actual Time Concepts.- Paradigms of Natural Science and Substantial Temporology.- Time Questionnaire.

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