What makes time special? / Craig Callender.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xvii, 343 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191839603
- 0191839604
- 9780192517845
- 0192517848
- 115 23
- 190
- BD638 .C35 2017
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The problem of time -- Lost time: relativity theory -- Tearing spacetime asunder -- Quantum becoming? -- Intimations of quantum gravitational time -- The differences between time and space -- Laws, systems, and time -- Looking at the world sideways -- Do we experience the present? -- Stuck in the common now -- The flow of time: stitching the world together -- Explaining the temporal value asymmetry -- Moving past the ABCs of time -- Putting it all together.
The flow of time is a deep, significant and universal aspect of human life. Yet it remains a mystery and many dismiss the flow of time as illusory. Craig Callender explores this puzzle, and offers a fascinating explanation of why creatures experience time as flowing - even if, as physics suggests, it isn't.
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