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1 online resource (205 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Print version record. |
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1. The measurement of time: Keeping time ; The search for order -- 2. The principle of temporal levels: The moving boundaries of reality ; The stable integrative levels of nature ; The canonical forms of time ; "Notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined" ; "By which the may either be made more accurate of liable to exceptions -- 3. Special relativity theory : kinematics and dynamics ties to atemporal motion: From absolute rest to absolute motion ; The Lorentz transformations ; Time and the minkowski diagram ; The atemporal boundaries of the special relativistic world ; Certain consequences of nowlessness ; About absent arrowheads -- 4. Quantum theory : the rules of the prototemporal world: Duality, indeterminism, and complementarity ; Probabilistic law and quantization ; Experiments and thought experiments ; Across the boundaries of the prototemporal world ; The completeness and reality of the prototemporal world -- 5. Thermodynamics : two opposing arrows of time: The thermodynamic arrow ; The concept of entropy and its many forms ; The three laws of thermodynamics ; reversibility and irreversibility ; Colsed and open cases -- 6. General relativity theory : the natural history of the eotemporal world: The two theories of relativity ; The astral geometry of Gauss ; The astral geometry of Einstein ; Cosmic time ; A glance at unified fields ; Two cosmic arrows -- 7. Biogenesis and organic evolution : the breaking of the eotemporal symmetry: From simultaneities of chnace to simultaneities of need ; Complexity ; The usefulness of nember ; From simultaneities of need to expectations and memories ; Distances and times ; Mesoforms and laws of nature -- 8. Unity and multiplicity in physics: The conservative tradition in the study of time in physics ; The evolutionary synthesis of the sciences. |
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| Subject |
Time.
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Relativity (Physics)
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Thermodynamics.
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Life -- Origin.
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SCIENCE -- Time.
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Life -- Origin.
(OCoLC)fst00998169
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Relativity (Physics) (OCoLC)fst01093604
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Thermodynamics. (OCoLC)fst01149832
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Time. (OCoLC)fst01151043
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Zeit.
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Physik.
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Relativitätstheorie.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fraser, J.T. (Julius Thomas), 1923- Genesis and evolution of time. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1982 0710805004 (DLC) 82008622 (OCoLC)8476007 |
| ISBN |
0585338906 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585338903 (electronic bk.) |
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