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
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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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements &amp -- Thanks -- Introduction -- Prologue: Walk Towards A Distant Star -- 1 Time - Part 1 -- 2 When is Now? -- 3 The Time Explorer's Toolkit -- 4 Infinity &amp -- 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 -- 10.1 Time as an Emergent Property? -- 10.2 Time as a Dimension? -- 11 Gödel Universes? -- 12 Big Bangs -- 13 Bubbles of Time -- 14 Multiverse Scenarios -- 15 In Search of OM -- End Notes -- Further Reading -- Index
  • 12 Big Bangs --
  • Contents --
  • 7 Wave Functions: Mathematics Is Reality --
  • 6 A Surprisingly Puzzling Reality --
  • 1 Time - Part 1 --
  • 15 In Search of OM --
  • Further Reading --
  • 14 Multiverse Scenarios --
  • Index
  • 8 The Most Complex Object in the Known Universe --
  • End Notes --
  • 10 Time - Part 2: the Guises of Time --
  • Acknowledgements & Thanks --
  • Prologue: Walk Towards A Distant Star --
  • 3 The Time Explorer's Toolkit --
  • 5 Our Quantized Reality: Life in the Strobe Lights --
  • 2 When is Now? --
  • 13 Bubbles of Time --
  • 4 Infinity & Infinities --
  • Frontmatter --
  • 11 Gödel Universes? --
  • Introduction --
  • 9 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (aka Indeterminacy) --