Confronting the Enigma of Time 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1800613202
• ISBN-13: 9781800613201
• Author: John R Fanchi

In Newton’s classical mechanics, time played the role of a monotonically increasing evolution parameter. Einstein rejected the Newtonian concept and instead identified time as the fourth coordinate of a space-time four-vector. Today, scientists are considering different concepts of time as a means of resolving incompatibilities between relativity and quantum mechanics. Some view time as an emergent property of a system rather than a fundamental property, while others consider two temporal variables. The purpose of this book is to examine the role of time in modern physics so that the reader gains an increased awareness of time and its place in our understanding of nature.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Enigma of Time

Chapter 2: Time from Prehistory to the Ancient Greeks

Chapter 3: Time from Ptolemy to Kepler

Chapter 4: Newton and Maxwell

Chapter 5: Einstein’s Special Relativity

Chapter 6: Paradoxes of Special Relativity

Chapter 7: Gravity and Action at a Distance

Chapter 8: General Relativity

Chapter 9: Introduction to Modern Cosmology

Chapter 10: Evidence for the Expanding Universe

Chapter 11: Physics of the Subatomic Scale

Chapter 12: Prelude to the Big Bang

Chapter 13: The Inflationary Universe

Chapter 14: Time’s Arrow

Chapter 15: Time: Death or Rebirth?

Chapter 16: Historical Time

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