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Images of Time - Mind, Science, Reality (Hardcover)
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Images of Time - Mind, Science, Reality (Hardcover)
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Have you ever wondered about Time: what it is or how to discuss it?
If you have, then you may have been bewildered by the many
different views and opinions in many diverse fields to be found,
such as physics, mathematics, philosophy, religion, history, and
science fiction novels and films. This book will help you unravel
fact from fiction. It provides a broad survey of many of these
views, these images of time, covering historical, cultural,
philosophical, biological, mathematical and physical images of
time, including classical and quantum mechanics, special and
general relativity and cosmology. This book gives you more than
just a review of such images. It provides the reader a basis for
judging the scientific soundness of these various images. It
develops the reader's critical ability to distinguish Images of
Time in terms of its contextual completeness. Differentiating
between metaphysical images (which cannot be scientifically
validated) and those that could, in principle, be put to empirical
test. Showing that mathematical and classical mechanical images are
more complete, and genuine quantum mechanics based images have the
greatest degree of contextual completeness. Through the use of a
simple algorithm, the reader can decide the classification of any
of the images of time discussed in this book. These distinctions
are of particular importance in this day and age, when we are
flooded by a plethora of competing Images of Time. Many of these
have no scientific basis or empirical support or content. This book
will be of value not only to philosophers, scientists and students,
but also to the general reader interested in this fundamental
topic, because it introduces a method of distinguishing between
science fiction and science fact.
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