Everywhere and everywhen: adventures in physics and philosophy
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| Item Description: | Literaturangaben Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 217 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 25 cm |
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| adam_text | Titel: Everywhere and everywhen
Autor: Huggett, Nick
Jahr: 2010
Contents
A Longish Introduction: The Problem of Change, 1
1.1 Melissus s Paradox, 2
1.2 What Is Change? 3
1.3 Laws, 9
1.4 Spacetime Today, 14
Zeno s Paradoxes, 17
2.1 The Dichotomy Paradox, 18
2.2 Supertasks , 21
Zeno s Arrow Paradox, 27
3.1 The Paradox, 27
3.2 What Philosophy Can Teach Physics, 29
The Shape of Space I: Topology, 31
4.1 An End to Space? 32
4.2 Neither Bounded Nor Infinite, 37
4.3 What Physics Can Teach Philosophy, 40
Beyond the Third Dimension? 42
5.1 Multidimensional Life, 44
5.2 More Than Three Dimensions? 47
Why Three Dimensions? 51
6.1 The Force of Gravity and the Dimensions of Space, 51
6.2 Does Intelligent Life Take Three Dimensions? 54
6.3 Is the Universe Made for Humans? 56
6.4 The Megaverse, 58
6.5 Philosophy in Physics, 62
The Shape of Space II: Curved Space? 64
7.1 Mathematical Certainty, 64
7.2 Life in Non-Euclidean Geometry, 66
7.3 What Kind of Knowledge Is Geometry? 71
Contents
8 Looking for Geometry, 75
8.1 Measuring the Geometry of Space? 75
8.2 The Geometry of Poincaré s Space, 79
8.3 How to Disprove a Definition, 81
8.4 Experiencing Space, 84
8.5 Where Is Geometry? 86
9 What Is Space? 89
9.1 Space=Matter, 90
9.2 Relational Space, 92
9.3 Absolute Space, 94
9.4 Relational Space Redux, 98
9.5 What Physics and Philosophy Can Teach Each Other, 100
10 Time, 103
10.1 Time versus Space, 103
10.2 Nowism, 106
10.3 A Moving Now? 108
10.4 McTaggart s Argument, 110
10.5 Passing Time in a Block Universe, 112
11 Time and Tralfamadore, 116
11.1 The Mind s Worldline, 117
11.2 Experience of Space versus Time, 119
11.3 Another Arrow, 122
11.4 Physics and the Philosophy of Perception, 123
12 Time Travel, 126
12.1 What Is Time Travel? 126
12.2 Is Time Travel Possible? 128
12.3 The Problem with Time Travel, 129
12.4 Possible and Impossible Time Travel, 131
12.5 The Philosophy and Physics of Time Travel, 135
13 Why Can t I Stop My Younger Self from Time Traveling? 138
13.1 Physics Might Stop Me..., 138
13.2 ... and If Not, Logic Will, 139
13.3 My Precise Physical State Stops Me, 141
13.4 Living in a Physical Universe, 146
14 Spacetime and the Theory of Relativity, 150
14.1 Photons and Bullets, 151
14.2 Convention, 154
14.3 Relativity—When Is Now? 155
14.4 Relativistic Spacetime, 158
14.5 Relativity of Length, 161
14.6 Relativity of Time, 164
Contents
15 Time in Relativity, 168
15.1 The Twins, 168
15.2 General Relativity, 171
15.3 Time versus Space Yet Again, 172
15.4 Einstein s Revolution in Philosophy, 177
16 Hands and Mirrors, 179
16.1 Is Handedness Intrinsic or Extrinsic? 179
16.2 The Fitting Account, 182
16.3 Kant s Argument Against the Fitting Account, 185
16.4 Looking Left and Right, 188
16.5 Mirrors, 190
16.6 Orientability, 192
17 Identity, 194
17.1 Particle Statistics, 195
17.2 Schrödinger s Counting Games, 197
18 Quarticles, 204
18.1 New Counting Games, 204
18.2 Hookon Identity, 208
18.3 Indistinguishable Quarticles? 209
18.4 Quanta as Quarticles, 210
19 Where Next? 213
Index, 215
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