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What makes time special? /
As we navigate through life we instinctively model time as having a flowing present that divides a fixed past from open future. This model develops in childhood and is deeply saturated within our language, thought and behavior, affecting our conceptions of the universe, freedom and the self. Yet as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The problem of time
- Lost time: relativity theory
- Tearing spacetime asunder
- Quantum becoming?
- Intimations of quantum gravitational time
- The differences between time and space
- Laws, systems, and time
- Looking at the world sideways
- Do we experience the present?
- Stuck in the common now
- The flow of time: stitching the world together
- Explaining the temporal value asymmetry
- Moving past the ABCs of time
- Putting it all together.