The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception

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Selected papers from a May 2002 workshop provide specialists and lay readers with a multidisciplinary sampling of scholarly research on the nature of time. Although focusing primarily on technical aspects of the problem of understanding time, most chapters are accessible to general readers, and the book encompasses controversial issues such as altered states of consciousness, religion, and metaphysics. Time in human cognitive processes, mathematical approaches, perspectives from physics, and integrated perspectives are explained.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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This book provides the reader with the most recent scholarly insights into the nature of time - undoubtedly one of the most profound mysteries that science has ever faced. The selected contributions are grouped into four conceptually different yet mutually cohesive chapters, carefully woven into a comprehensive whole that goes well beyond standard treatments. The subjects discussed include the fine structure of psychological time(s) and consciousness, novel algebraic geometrical and number theoretic models of time dimension, different arrows of time, time travel, EPR paradox, quantum non-locality, pregeometry, and a host of relevant epistemological and ontological issues. The book shows that research is becoming necessarily interdisciplinary and does not ignore even such delicate issues as "altered" states of consciousness, religion and metaphysics. Although focused primarily on an academic readership, the treatise can be read with profit by anyone fascinated by the enigma of time. A coherent, multidisciplinary sampling of the most up-to-date professional research on the nature of time, addressing four major themes: internal times and consciousness, mathematical approaches to the concept of time, the physicist's view of time, and integrative science's views of time. Essential reading for anyone, scientist or layperson, with a serious interest in the topic.


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Selected papers from a May 2002 workshop provide specialists and lay readers with a multidisciplinary sampling of scholarly research on the nature of time. Although focusing primarily on technical aspects of the problem of understanding time, most chapters are accessible to general readers, and the book encompasses controversial issues such as altered states of consciousness, religion, and metaphysics. Time in human cognitive processes, mathematical approaches, perspectives from physics, and integrated perspectives are explained. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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