The Reality of Time Flow Local Becoming in Modern Physics /

• Main Author: Arthur, Richard T. W. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Cosmology.; Mathematical physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.

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 physic...

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. .