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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Warsaw, [Poland] ; Berlin, [Germany] :
De Gruyter
2015
2014. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428392306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
