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The Genesis and Evolution of Time : A Critique of Interpretation in Physics
author
:
Fraser, J. T.
publisher
:
University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0710805004
print isbn13
:
9780710805003
ebook isbn13
:
9780585338903
language
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English
subject
Time, Relativity (Physics) , Thermodynamics, Life--Origin.
publication date
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1982
lcc
:
QB209.F7 1982eb
ddc
:
529
subject
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Time, Relativity (Physics) , Thermodynamics, Life--Origin.
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The Genesis and Evolution of Time
J. T. Fraser
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First published in Great Britain in 1982 by THE HARVESTER PRESS LIMITED Publisher: John Spiers 16 Ship Street, Brighton, Sussex 1982 by J. T. Fraser ISBN 0710805004 Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved
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Beneath this new and open landscape the steady devotion of my wife
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Acknowledgments
I am deeply indebted to Professor Nathaniel Lawrence for his careful, critical reading of the manuscript. His scholarship enriched both the book and the mind of its author.
I wish to thank the Library of Manhattanville College for the stack privileges I have enjoyed for well over a decade, the Burndy Library for its ever ready welcome and the Westport Public Library for its reliable interlibrary service.
A workshop held at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation at their Bellagio Study and Conference Center helped clarify some of the issues discussed in the book.
Illustration credits are shown on the appropriate pages.
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Contents
Introductory Remarks
1
1. The Measurement of Time
3
1.1 Keeping Time
Celestial Cycles
Earthly Cycles
Geared Cycles
Tabulated Cycles
Atomic Cycles
Reference Epochs
The Ideal Timekeeper
1.2 The Search for Order
2. The Principle of Temporal Levels
19
2.1 The Moving Boundaries of Reality
2.2 The Stable Integrative Levels of Nature
2.3 The Canonical Forms of Time
2.4 "Notwithstanding Any Contrary Hypotheses That May Be Imagined"
2.5 "By Which They May Either Be Made More Accurate or Liable to Exceptions"
3. Special Relativity Theory Kinematics and Dynamics Tied to Atemporal Motion
37
3.1 From Absolute Rest to Absolute Motion
3.2 The Lorentz Transformations
3.3 Time and the Minkowski Diagram
3.4 The Atemporal Boundaries of the Special Relativistic World
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