The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Internal Times and Consciousness

   1. Internal Times and Consciousness

      • Simon Grondin

      Pages 1-3

   2. The Human Sense of Time: Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Considerations

      • A. D. Eisler

      Pages 5-18

   3. The Parallel-Clock Model: A Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration

      • H. Eisler

      Pages 19-26

   4. Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans

      • R. Nikolaeva-Hubenova

      Pages 27-31

   5. Studying Psychological Time with Weber’s Law

      • S. Grondin

      Pages 33-41

   6. Time and the Problem of Consciousness

      • M. Binder

      Pages 43-51

   7. Temporal Displacement

      • G. B. Vicario

      Pages 53-66

   8. Discrimination and Sequentialization of Events in Perception

      • H. Atmanspacher, T. Filk

      Pages 67-75

   9. Time, Consciousness and Quantum Events in Fundamental Spacetime Geometry

      • S. Hameroff

      Pages 77-89

   10. How Time Passes

       • G. Franck

       Pages 91-103

   11. Reality, and Those who Perceive it

       • J. Sanfey

       Pages 105-113

   12. The Conscious Universe

       • M. Kafatos, S. Roy, M. DrĂGĂnescu

       Pages 115-127

3. Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of Time

   1. Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of Time

      • M. Saniga

      Pages 129-130

   2. Geometry of time and Dimensionality of Space

      • M. Saniga

      Pages 131-143

   3. Time in Biology and Physics

      • J. D. H. Smith

      Pages 145-152

   4. Analysis of the Relationship Between Real and Imaginary time in Physics

      • G. Jaroszkiewicz

      Pages 153-164

   5. Clifford Algebra, Geometry and Physics

      • M. PavŠiČ

      Pages 165-174

   6. The Programs of the Extended Relativity in C- Spaces: Towards Physical Foundations of String Theory

      • C. Castro

      Pages 175-185

   7. Time Measurements, 1/f Noise of the Oscillators and Algebraic Numbers

      • M. Planat

      Pages 187-195

There are very few concepts that fascinate equally a theoretical physicist studying black holes and a patient undergoing seriolls mental psychosis. Time, undoubtedly, can well be ranked among them. For the measure of time inside a black hole is no less bizarre than the perception of time by a schizophrenic, who may perceive it as completely "suspended," "standing still," or even "reversing its direction. " The nature of time is certainly shrouded in profound mystery. This, perhaps, since the concept entails multifarious, and occasionally incongruous, facets. No wonder the subject attracts the serious attention of scholars on the one hand, and of the lay public on the other. Our Advanced Research Workshop is an excellent il­ lustration of this point, as the reader will soon discover. It turned out to be a unique professional forum for an unusually lively, effective and fruitful exchange of ideas and beliefs among 48 participants from 20 countries worldwide, selected out of more than a hundred applicants. The present book is based on the select talks presented at the meeting, and aims to provide the interested layperson and specialist alike with a multidisciplinary sampling of the most up-to-date scholarly research on the nature of time. It represents a coherent, state-of-the-art volume showing that research relevant to this topic is necessarily interdisciplinary and does not ignore such delicate issues as "altered" states of consciousness, religion and metaphysics.

• Algebra
• Potential
• calculus
• experience
• geometry

• Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica del CNR, Sezione di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

  Rosolino Buccheri

• Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, Slovak Republic

  Metod Saniga

• Department of Physics, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, USA

  William Mark Stuckey

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