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Everywhere and Everywhen: Adventures in Physics and Philosophy [Pehme köide]

(Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illionois Chicago)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 234 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x18 mm, kaal: 340 g, 49 line illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Feb-2010
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0195379500
  • ISBN-13: 9780195379501
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 234 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x18 mm, kaal: 340 g, 49 line illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 11-Feb-2010
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0195379500
  • ISBN-13: 9780195379501
Teised raamatud teemal:
Why does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy -- armed with a power to analyze fundamental concepts and their relationship to the human experience -- has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. In Everywhere and Everywhen, Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the world, through some of the newest, such as: What shape is space? Does it have an edge? What is the difference between past and future? What is time in relativity? Is time travel possible? Are there other universes?
Huggett shows that answers to these profound questions are not just reserved for physics, and that philosophy can not only address but help advance our view of our deepest questions about the universe, space, and time, and their implications for humanity. His lively, accessible introduction to these topics is suitable for a general reader with no previous exposure to these profound and exciting questions.

Arvustused

Huggett's writing style is clear and accessible, the examples are plentiful and helpful, and the overall narrative structure of the book is successful, with each chapter leading to the next. * American Journal of Physics *

A Longish Introduction: The Problem of Change
1(16)
Melissus's Paradox
2(1)
What Is Change?
3(6)
Laws
9(5)
Spacetime Today
14(3)
Zeno's Paradoxes
17(10)
The Dichotomy Paradox
18(3)
`Supertasks'
21(6)
Zeno's Arrow Paradox
27(4)
The Paradox
27(2)
What Philosophy Can Teach Physics
29(2)
The Shape of Space I: Topology
31(11)
An End to Space?
32(5)
Neither Bounded Nor Infinite
37(3)
What Physics Can Teach Philosophy
40(2)
Beyond the Third Dimension?
42(9)
Multidimensional Life
44(3)
More Than Three Dimensions?
47(4)
Why Three Dimensions?
51(13)
The Force of Gravity and the Dimensions of Space
51(3)
Does Intelligent Life Take Three Dimensions?
54(2)
Is the Universe Made for Humans?
56(2)
The Megaverse
58(4)
Philosophy in Physics
62(2)
The Shape of Space II: Curved Space?
64(11)
Mathematical Certainty
64(2)
Life in Non-Euclidean Geometry
66(5)
What Kind of Knowledge Is Geometry?
71(4)
Looking for Geometry
75(14)
Measuring the Geometry of Space?
75(4)
The `Geometry' of Poincare's Space
79(2)
How to Disprove a Definition
81(3)
Experiencing Space
84(2)
Where Is Geometry?
86(3)
What Is Space?
89(14)
Space-Matter
90(2)
Relational Space
92(2)
Absolute Space
94(4)
Relational Space Redux
98(2)
What Physics and Philosophy Can Teach Each Other
100(3)
Time
103(13)
Time versus Space
103(3)
Nowism
106(2)
A Moving Now?
108(2)
McTaggart's Argument
110(2)
Passing Time in a Block Universe
112(4)
Time and Tralfamadore
116(10)
The Mind's Worldline
117(2)
Experience of Space versus Time
119(3)
Another Arrow
122(1)
Physics and the Philosophy of Perception
123(3)
Time Travel
126(12)
What Is Time Travel?
126(2)
Is Time Travel Possible?
128(1)
The Problem with Time Travel
129(2)
Possible and Impossible Time Travel
131(4)
The Philosophy and Physics of Time Travel
135(3)
Why Can't I Stop My Younger Self from Time Traveling?
138(12)
Physics Might Stop Me...
138(1)
...and If Not, Logic Will
139(2)
My Precise Physical State Stops Me
141(5)
Living in a Physical Universe
146(4)
Spacetime and the Theory of Relativity
150(18)
Photons and Bullets
151(3)
Convention
154(1)
Relativity---When Is Now?
155(3)
Relativistic Spacetime
158(3)
Relativity of Length
161(3)
Relativity of Time
164(4)
Time in Relativity
168(11)
The Twins
168(3)
General Relativity
171(1)
Time versus Space Yet Again
172(5)
Einstein's Revolution in Philosophy
177(2)
Hands and Mirrors
179(15)
Is Handedness Intrinsic or Extrinsic?
179(3)
The `Fitting' Account
182(3)
Kant's Argument Against the Fitting Account
185(3)
Looking Left and Right
188(2)
Mirrors
190(2)
Orientability
192(2)
Identity
194(10)
Particle Statistics
195(2)
Schrodinger's Counting Games
197(7)
Quarticles
204(9)
New Counting Games
204(4)
Hookon Identity
208(1)
Indistinguishable Quarticles?
209(1)
Quanta as Quarticles
210(3)
Where Next?
213(2)
Index 215
Nick Huggett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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