Beyond the Dynamical Universe: Unifying Block Universe Physics and Time as Experienced
Autor Michael Silberstein, W.M. Stuckey, Timothy McDevitten Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 feb 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198807087
ISBN-10: 0198807082
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 62 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 237 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.87 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198807082
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 62 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 237 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.87 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
The book is fascinating: Who doesn't like provocative ideas? Who doesn't want physical and mathematical competency without philosophical naiveté?...extremely thought provoking and interesting.
This book is likely to become a crucial resource for future scientific revolutions, despite (or due to) its daring speculative proposals. Indeed, it offers no less than a complete redefinition of science and explanation, abandoning causality in favor of global consistency. By involving consciousness from the outset, instead of vainly wondering what is its "material cause", it paves the way to a truly complete view of the world. No aspect of "what there is" is left aside in this comprehensive book that synergizes physics with philosophy, our knowledge of nature with our knowledge of ourselves.
Einstein was worried about the exclusion of the 'now' from physics. Perhaps one should worry less. After reading this book an idea deeply grounded in physics emerges: complementary to our subjective experience, 'presence' and 'passage of time' are universal and fundamental properties of reality.
This important book drives a well-crafted stake through the heart of the dynamical view of time. The dogma that physics doesn't need philosophy is another welcome casualty.
This book presents a fascinating scientifically informed original metaphysics of nature sure to provoke discussion. And with the price of admission you get a set of wonderfully clear introductions to the cutting edge of modern physics.
From relativity and quantum mechanics to consciousness, Silberstein, Stuckey, and McDevitt, take us on an exciting cutting-edge tour of one of the greatest mysteries in science: the nature of time.
A tour-de-force on physics and philosophy by a philosopher, a physicist, and a mathematician, Beyond the Dynamical Universe is a bold attempt to do away with the standard explanatory paradigm in physics and replace it with a form of blockworld adynamical explanation that might have been inspired by the heptapods in the movie Arrival. Itâs a revolutionary proposal, with consequences for the nature of time and our perception of time, worked out in some detail in separate threads for the non-expert, the philosopher of physics, and the physicist. Well worth a serious read, the book succeeds in being both provocative and instructive on many levels.
This book is innovative in form and content. The form -- a physicist, a philosopher and a mathematician contributing parallel and interrelated threads on the same topicâis an exemplary model of interdisciplinarity in the foundations of physics. The content -- an adynamical, atemporal approach to solving the long-standing conceptual puzzles about quantum mechanics -- is a radical departure from standard modes of physical explanation, and one that just might give us genuine insight into the nature of the quantum world.
The book is an original and far-reaching attempt to bridge the gap between the physical image of time, presupposing a static view of a universe given in block, and our dynamical experience of passage, based on our perception of events coming into being in succession. To the extent that the essential task of philosophy is to achieve a unified view of the physical universe and of our place in it, this book is an absolute must for scientists and laypeople alike. You simply cannot put it down.
This book is likely to become a crucial resource for future scientific revolutions, despite (or due to) its daring speculative proposals. Indeed, it offers no less than a complete redefinition of science and explanation, abandoning causality in favor of global consistency. By involving consciousness from the outset, instead of vainly wondering what is its "material cause", it paves the way to a truly complete view of the world. No aspect of "what there is" is left aside in this comprehensive book that synergizes physics with philosophy, our knowledge of nature with our knowledge of ourselves.
Einstein was worried about the exclusion of the 'now' from physics. Perhaps one should worry less. After reading this book an idea deeply grounded in physics emerges: complementary to our subjective experience, 'presence' and 'passage of time' are universal and fundamental properties of reality.
This important book drives a well-crafted stake through the heart of the dynamical view of time. The dogma that physics doesn't need philosophy is another welcome casualty.
This book presents a fascinating scientifically informed original metaphysics of nature sure to provoke discussion. And with the price of admission you get a set of wonderfully clear introductions to the cutting edge of modern physics.
From relativity and quantum mechanics to consciousness, Silberstein, Stuckey, and McDevitt, take us on an exciting cutting-edge tour of one of the greatest mysteries in science: the nature of time.
A tour-de-force on physics and philosophy by a philosopher, a physicist, and a mathematician, Beyond the Dynamical Universe is a bold attempt to do away with the standard explanatory paradigm in physics and replace it with a form of blockworld adynamical explanation that might have been inspired by the heptapods in the movie Arrival. Itâs a revolutionary proposal, with consequences for the nature of time and our perception of time, worked out in some detail in separate threads for the non-expert, the philosopher of physics, and the physicist. Well worth a serious read, the book succeeds in being both provocative and instructive on many levels.
This book is innovative in form and content. The form -- a physicist, a philosopher and a mathematician contributing parallel and interrelated threads on the same topicâis an exemplary model of interdisciplinarity in the foundations of physics. The content -- an adynamical, atemporal approach to solving the long-standing conceptual puzzles about quantum mechanics -- is a radical departure from standard modes of physical explanation, and one that just might give us genuine insight into the nature of the quantum world.
The book is an original and far-reaching attempt to bridge the gap between the physical image of time, presupposing a static view of a universe given in block, and our dynamical experience of passage, based on our perception of events coming into being in succession. To the extent that the essential task of philosophy is to achieve a unified view of the physical universe and of our place in it, this book is an absolute must for scientists and laypeople alike. You simply cannot put it down.
Notă biografică
Michael David Silberstein is Professor of Philosophy at Elizabethtown College and Affiliated Faculty in the philosophy department at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also a faculty member in the Foundations of Physics Program and a Fellow on the Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences. He is an NEH Fellow. His primary research interests are foundations of physics and foundations of cognitive science, respectively. He is also interested in how these branches of philosophy and science bear on more general questions of reduction, emergence and explanation.Mark Stuckey is a professor of physics at Elizabethtown College where he teaches an array of physics courses to include general relativity and quantum mechanics. He has published in the areas of relativistic cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity, and foundations of physics.Timothy McDevitt is a professor of mathematics at Elizabethtown College where he teaches a variety of math courses. His research is highly interdisciplinary and he has published in applied mechanics, numerical analysis, physics, education, and medicine.