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The Reality of Time Flow - Local Becoming in Modern Physics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Reality of Time Flow - Local Becoming in Modern Physics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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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.
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