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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Reality of Time Flow
    sub title: Local Becoming in Modern Physics
  name:
    name part: Arthur, Richard T. W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 287 p. online resource.
  abstract: It is commonly held that there is no place for the 'now' in physics, and also that the passing of time is something subjective, having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with the way reality is. Indeed, the majority of modern theoretical physicists and philosophers of physics contend that the passing of time is incompatible with modern physical theory, and excluded in a fundamental description of physical reality. This book provides a forceful rebuttal of such claims. In successive chapters the author explains the historical precedents of the modern opposition to time flow, giving careful expositions of matters relevant to becoming in classical physics, the special and general theories of relativity, and quantum theory, without presupposing prior expertise in these subjects. Analysing the arguments of thinkers ranging from Aristotle, Russell, and Bergson to the proponents of quantum gravity, he contends that the passage of time, understood as a local becoming of events out of those in their past at varying rates, is not only compatible with the theories of modern physics, but implicit in them. .
  table of contents: Introduction -- The problem of time in classical philosophy -- Modern objections to time's passage -- Classical physics and temporal becoming -- Special relativity and the lapse of time -- Relativity and the present -- Time in general relativity -- Becoming in quantum theory -- Conclusion. .
  note: by Richard T. W. Arthur.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
  classification: QC6.9
  classification: QC5.53
  classification: 530.01
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9783030159481
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15948-1
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    record creation date: 190425
    record change date: 20191024221027.0
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