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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor George Jaroszkiewicz is Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK. He previously held positions as a Postdocotral Research Fellow at the University of Kent, Cantery, UK, and at the University of Oxford, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Observers and time 3: Subjective images of time 4: Cultural images of time 5: Literary images of time 6: Objective images of time 7: Mathematical images of time 8: Illusionary images of time 9: Causal images of time 10: Physics and time 11: Biological time 12: The dimensions of time 13: The architecture of time 14: Absolute time 15: The reparametrization of time 16: Origins of relativity 17: Special relativity 18: Generalized transformations 19: General relativistic time 20: Time travel 21: Imaginary time 22: Irreversible time 23: Discrete time 24: Time and quanta 25: Temporal correlations 26: Time reversal 27: Quantized spacetime 28: Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Index ...
