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Everywhere and everywhen : adventures in physics and philosophy /
Why does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. In this book, Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the worl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A longish introduction : the problem of change
- Zeno's paradoxes
- Zeno's arrow paradox
- The shape of space I : topology
- Beyond the third dimension
- Why three dimensions?
- The shape of space II : curved space?
- Looking for geometry
- What is space?
- Time
- Time and Tralfamadore
- Time travel
- Why can't I stop my younger self from time traveling?
- Spacetime and the theory of relativity
- Time in relativity
- Hands and mirrors
- Identity
- Quarticles
- Where Next?