Time and Timelessness


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13 pages found in Time and Timelessness:

Being and Becoming in Modern Physics
Discusses implications of general relativity for the philosophy of time; by Steven Savitt.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spacetime-bebecome/

The Direction of Time
Different causes and aspects of the time's arrow (Web-book in pdf).
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~as3/time-direction/

Multisimultaneity
On experiments to investigate the tension between quantum mechanics and relativity.
http://www.quantumphil.org/history.htm

On the Time Reversal Invariance of Classical Electromagnetic Theory
suggests a thinking about the time reversal invariance of classical electromagnetic theory -- one that makes use of the invariant (four-dimensional)
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001406/

Reductionism, physicalism, dualism
Entry in: Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind
http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/nonreductivephysicalism.html

Review of Robert Wright, Non-Zero
Critical and informed reviews of Non-Zero book, above.
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/Reviews/nonzero.html

Time
Long article about questions of time, as discussed through the history of philosophy.
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/t/time.htm

Time: Illusion and Reality: An Unconventional But Constructive Look at the Nature of Time
Philosophical essey on nature of time.
http://smithjcn.googlepages.com/time

Timeless Reality
Summary, excerpts, and selected reviews of a book by Victor J. Stenger presenting a time-symmetric view of physics and cosmology.
http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vstenger/void.html

Time's Arrow - book review
The reviewer asks, has the case for temporal symmetry been overstated?
http://www.usyd.edu.au/philosophy/price/preprints/callender_review.html

A Walk Through Time
Evolution of timekeeping through the centuries.
http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html

What's Theory Reduction?
Can Thermodynamics be reduced to Mechanics?
http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/reduction1.html

Why is Time Frame-dependent in Relativity?
Article by Mariela Szirko describes special relativity as stronly supporting a "block universe" view, but points out that knowledge from other disciplines argues in favor of a "cause and effect" view of the universe. [PDF]
http://electroneubio.secyt.gov.ar/Why_is_Time_Frame-dependent_in_Relativity.pdf


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