Overview
Provides a thorough introduction to the problem of time as a linear concept
Provides a broad cultural study on time, with philosophical, religious and scientific viewpoints
Contains a unique interdisciplinary approach
Will be of interest to humanity students, as well as social and natural science students
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Anthropic Principle
- Bohmian Mechanics
- Causality
- Causality and Mc Taggart’s A and B Series
- Consciousness Arrow of Time
- Consistent Histories
- Cosmology
- Decoherence
- Direction of Time
- Dissipative Systems
- Entropy
- Epistemic Uncertainties
- Free Will and Determinism
- Gödel’s Universe
- Macroscopic Irreversibility
- Mathematical Models of Time
- Measuring Process in Quantum Mechanics
- Microscopic Irreversibility
- Morphogenesis
- Psychopathology of Time
- Quantum Symmetries
- Special and General Relativity
- Symmetry Breaking Phenomena
- The Big Bang
- Time Arrow
- Time Reflection
- Time and Information Theory
- Time and Mathematics
- Time and Philosophy
- Time and Physics
- Time and Psychology
- Time and Space
- Time and Thermodynamics
- Time in Indian Culture
- Time in Neuroscience
- Time in Quantum Mechanics
- Time- Reversal
- Wigner Functions
About this book
This edited book presents the problems of time and direction from an interdisciplinary point of view, concentrating in particular on the following relations:
• Time and physics
• Time, philosophy and psychology
• Time, mathematics and information theory
It is a unique contribution by philosophers and scientists who are active in mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, information theory and psychology. Questions such as the existence of a Big Bang, the neurobiological basis regarding the coexistence of free will and determinism, intercultural aspects of time, mathematical models of time, psychopathological features of time, and micro reversibility versus macroscopic irreversibility are studied. It also provides a truly interdisciplinary study of the problematic 'arrow of time'.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Direction of Time
Editors: Sergio Albeverio, Philippe Blanchard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02798-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02797-5Published: 18 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38024-7Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02798-2Published: 09 December 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Philosophy of Science