The March of Time

Download or read book The March of Time written by Friedel Weinert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose – relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions – that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.