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

✍ Scribed by Weinert, Friedel

• Book ID: 120089956
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 146 KB
• Edition: 2013
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3642353479
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5_1

✦ Synopsis

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.