The far horizons of time time and mind in the universe

The far horizons of time time and mind in the universe

What is Time? Assuming no prior specialized knowledge by the reader, the book raises specific, hitherto overlooked questions about how time works, such as how and why anyone can be made to be, at the very same instant, simultaneous with events that are actually days apart. It examines abiding issues...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ransford, H. Chris, author (author), Paulina Leśna-Szreter, editor (editor), Andrew Laister, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Warsaw, [Poland] ; Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter 2015
2014.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Space and time.
Popular science, time, mystery of time, mathematical universe, space-time, quantum, delayed choice, Bell's inequality, wave function, the brain's perception of time, saccades, anthropic principle.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428392306719
Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • 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

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