Introducing time. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Craig Callender & Ralph Edney.
• Authors: Callender, Craig; Edney, Ralph
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; What is Time?; All Kinds of Clocks; Biological Clocks; Psychological Time; Is Time Merely in the Head?; Clocks and Time; How Long is an Interval of Time?; The Most Reliable Clocks; The Atomic Clock; Absolute, True and Mathematical Time; True Time; Opponents of Newtonian Time: Relationalism; A Scenario of Time without Change; Can Relationalism replace Absolute Time?; Conventionalism; A Universe Out of Sync?; The Nature of Time: Relative and Non-Relative; Tenseless and Tensed Theories of Time; Tensed Time; Tenseless Time; Representing Dimensions The Fourth or Time DimensionDiagrams of Space and Time; Picture of a "Tenseless" Life; The Now and the Here; The Problem of Motion and Change; McTaggart's Argument; Avoiding McTaggart's Trap; How Fast Does Time Flow?; Galilean Relativity; Frames of Reference; Einstein's Relativity; Simultaneity is Relative to the Observer; The Spacetime Event; Lightcones; Time and Observer Dependency; Relativity and Tenses; Does Logic Allow Time Travel?; The Logic of Impossibility; The Book That No One Wrote; The Causal Loop; A Logical Contradiction of Time Travel; Logical Contradictions Cannot Occur Personal TimeDying at a Time Earlier Than Your Birth; Can We Change the Past?; Can We Affect the Past?; Two Sorts of Time Travel Stories; Does Physics Allow Time Travel?; Moving Clocks Run Slower; Small Savings in Time; General Relativity and Four-dimensional Curvature; Why We Don't Need a Fifth Dimension; Spacetime Curvature; General Relativity and Time Travel; Gödel's Rotating Universe; Spacetime in a Rotating Universe; The Effect of Spacetime Curvature; Taub-NUT-Misner Spacetime; Gödel's Complete Spacetime Travel; Is Gödelian Time Travel Possible?; Gödel Against Tenses Another Problem for the Tensed TheoryWas Gödel Wrong?; Cosmic String Theory; Wormholes in Spacetime; Wormholes May Not Allow Travel; Exotic Possibilities For Time; Möbius Twist in Space; Möbius Twist in Time; Branching Time; Does Space "Run Out"?; Finite Space Without Limit; Geroch's Theorem; Eternal Recurrence; Travelling to Big Bang; A Philosophical Objection; Closed and Open Time; To Sum Up, So Far ...; The Direction of Time; "Irreversible" Processes; Time Reversal Invariance; Seeing in Terms of Particles; The Science of Heat; Spontaneous Processes; The Law of Entropy The Problem of Newtonian Particles, AgainStatistical Mechanics; A Statistical Asymmetry; Is Reversal Probable?; The Most Probable State of Entropy; The Loschmidt Paradox; In What Direction Does Entropy Increase?; The Universe's Statistical Development; The Boundary Conditions of the Universe; An Unlikely Hypothesis; Why Does Entropy Really Increase?; The "Temporal Double Standard"; A Reversal of Time's Arrow; Communication with the Time Reversed?; Time-reversed Communication; Quantum Gravity: The End of Time?; The Wheeler-DeWitt Equation; Rounding-up of Positions
• Publisher Details: London : Icon
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 115; Time; Chronology; Time; Temps; Chronologie; time; chronology (discipline); Chronology; Time
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1848317727; 9781848317727
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.