The nature of time
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The nature of time
CRC Press, 2023
1st ed
- : hbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
- Focuses on a very physical and specific understanding of how humans measure and interpret the measurements of the quantity of time, unlike existing books which explore qualitative, speculative theories currently entertained in physics and philosophy.
目次
1. Clocks: The Nature of Time Measurement 2. Issues in the Nature of Time 3. Thermodynamics, Irreversibility, and Time 4. Quantum Mechanics and Time 5. Relativity and Time 6. Afterword Appendix 1.1 Some Atomic Physics of the Cesium Clock Appendix 1.2 A Few Facts About Molecular Biology Appendix 1.3 Determining the Age of the Earth Appendix 1.4 Doppler Shifts Appendix 1.5 Determination of Distances of Galaxies from Earth and Estimates of the Age of the Universe Appendix 2.1 Defining the Instantaneous Present and Predicting the Future with Newtonian Physics Appendix 3.1 Coarse Graining in Card Games Appendix 5.1 Michelson Morley Experiment Appendix 5.2 The 'G' in the Lorentz Transformation Appendix 5.3 Proper Time Intervals Are the Same in All Frames
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