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100			_aJaroskiewicz, George
245			_aImages of Time _b Mind, Science, Reality
260			_aOxford _bOxford University Press _c2016
300			_a305p
500			_aincludes index and biblioraphy
505	2		_a1 Introduction ....1 Plan of this book .....1 What is time .....2 Paradigms ......3 Events in time ......6 Temporal ordering and time labels ......7 The contextuality of temporal ordering ......7 Arrows of time .....8 Arrows versus cycles .....13 2 Observers and time .....14 Introduction .....14 Metaphysics, physics and validation .......14 Observers and the physical universe .....16 The contextuality of scientific truth .....16 Contextual completeness .....18 Time and contextuality .....19 The contextuality of the existential quantifier ......20 Primary observers ......21 Experiments ....22 Heisenberg cuts ....22 Generalized propositions ....24 3 Subjective images of time ....26 The greeks ....26 The dogmatists ......30 The sceptics .....33 The age of reason .....34 The classical mechanists ....37 The metaphysicists ....38 The mathematical physicists ....39 4 Cultural images of time .....42 Cosmogony and theogony .....42 Stone age calendars ....43 The mesopotamians ......44 The middle east ......46 The europeans .....47 Eastern philosophies .....48 Australian aboriginal concepts of time ....49 The gentral americans ....49 The far east .....51 5 Literary imges of time .....52 Introduction ......52 Literary varieties .....53 6 Objective images of time .....59 Introduction ......59 Optics .....59 Other factors .....62 Time in the laboratory .....64 Laboratory frames and observer choruses ....66 Chorus protocol .....67 Superobservers ....69 7 Mathematical images of time .....70 Introduction ....70 Some reasonable requirements .....71 Sets .....72 Temporal ordering and ordered sets ......74 functions and the mathematical arrow of time ......74 Cardinality ......78 The natural numbers ....79 Linear continua ....79 Further concepts .....82 8 Illusionary images of time ....89 The block universe ....89 Persistence and transemporal identity ....91 The problem of time in cosmology .....93 9 Causal images of time ....96 Introduction ......96 Causality .....96 Blame and responsibility .....98 Determinism and known unknowns ....99 Teleology ....100 Chaos .....100 10 Physics and time ....102 Physics and persistence ....102 Scales of time ....103 11 Biological time ......109 Introduction .....109 The solar model .....110 Lifetimes of organisms ......111 Chronobiology ....112 Biological time travel .....112 12 The dimensions of time ....113 Introduction .....113 Partial differential equations and the flow of information ......115 The signature of spacetime .....120 Empirical studies ....120 13 The architecture of time ...122 What is temporal architecture .....122 Examples of temporal architectures .....124 Architectural levels of observation .....127 14 Absolute time ....133 Introduction .....133 Clocks ....134 The reparametrization of time .....134 Absolute space ....136 Aristotellian space-time versus galilean-newtonian space-time ....136 Particle worldlines ...139 The newtonian mechanical paradigm ....140 The euler-largrange mechanical paradigm ....141 Phase space .....142 Canonical transformation theory ......144 Infinitesimal transfoemations ......146 15 The reparametrization of time ....148 Introduction ...148 Temporal parametrization ....149 Temporal reparametrization ....150 Action integrals ....150 Temporal reparametrization in detail ....152 Reparametrization form invariance ....153 The extended equations of motion ..155 Transformation to phase space .....156 Reparametrized primary identity .....158 16 Origins of relativity ...160 Inertial frames ....160 17 Special relativity .....171 18 Generalized transformations ......187 19 General relativistic time ....201 20 Time travel .....214 21 Imaginary time ....226 22 irreversible time .....235 23 Discrete time .....239 24 Time and quanta .....248 25 Temporal correlations ......258 26 Time reversal ....265 27 Quantized spacetime .....273 28 Epilogue ....279
700	1		_aJaroskiewicz, George
902			_bSFS
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