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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Main Author Ransford, H. Chris
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2015
De Gruyter Open
De Gruyter Poland
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
De Gruyter Open Poland
Edition1
Subjects
anthropic principle
Bell's inequality
Book Industry Communication
Chronology
delayed choice
mathematical universe
Mathematics
Mathematics & science
mystery of time
Popular science
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
QA1-939
QC801-809
quantum
saccades
SCIENCE
SCIENCE / Time
Space and time
space-time
Symmetry (Physics)
the brain's perception of time
time
Time reversal
wave function
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
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ISBN9783110440287
3110440288
9783110440270
311044027X
3110441438
9783110441437
DOI10.2478/9783110440287

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Summary: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 in the physics of time or at its periphery which still elude a full explanation ? such as delayed choice experiments, the brain's perception of time during saccadic masking, and more ? and suggests that these phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey applicable mathematics, thereby agreeing with a modern view that the universe and everything within it, including the mind, are ultimately mathematical structures. It delves into how a number of conundrums, such as the weak Anthropic Principle, could be resolved, and how such resolutions could be tested experimentally. All its various threads converge towards a same new vision of the ultimate essence of time, seen as a side effect from a deeper reality.
ISBN:9783110440287
3110440288
9783110440270
311044027X
3110441438
9783110441437
DOI:10.2478/9783110440287