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The far horizons of time time and mind in the universe /

The book raises and resolves specific questions in the physics of time, such as how and why someone can be simultaneous with events that are in fact days apart. It examines further abiding issues in the physics of time, and suggests that such phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey app...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ransford, H. Chris (Autor)
Otros Autores: Paulina Leśna-Szreter (Editor ), Andrew Laister (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Warsaw [Poland] ; Berlin [Germany] : De Gruyter Open, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: Walk Towards A Distant Star
  • 1 Time
  • Part 1
  • 2 When is Now?
  • 3 The Time Explorer's Toolkit
  • 4 Infinity & Infinities
  • 5 Our Quantized Reality: Life in the Strobe Lights
  • 6 A Surprisingly Puzzling Reality
  • 7 Wave Functions: Mathematics Is Reality
  • 8 The Most Complex Object in the Known Universe
  • 9 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (aka Indeterminacy)
  • 10 Time
  • Part 2: the Guises of Time
  • 11 Gödel Universes?
  • 12 Big Bangs
  • 13 Bubbles of Time
  • 14 Multiverse Scenarios
  • 15 In Search of OM
  • End Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Index