The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics and Perception. Edited by Rosolino Buccheri, Metod Saniga, and William Mark Stuckey. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht / Boston / London (published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division), 2003
Contents
- Preface
- List of participants
- Group photo
- Chapter 1: Internal Times and Consciousness
- S. Grondin:
- An Overview
- A. D. Eisler:
- The Human Sense of Time:
Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Considerations
- H. Eisler:
- The Parallel-Clock Model:
a Tool for Quantification of Experienced Duration
- R. Nikolaeva-Hubenova:
- Time in the Cognitive Process of Humans
- S. Grondin:
- Studying Psychological Time with Weber's Law
- M. Binder:
- Time and the Problem of Consciousness
- G. B. Vicario
- Temporal Displacement
- H. Atmanspacher and T. Filk
- Discrimination and Sequentialization of Events in Perception
- S. Hameroff:
- Time, Consciousness and
Quantum Events in Fundamental Spacetime Geometry
- G. Franck:
- How Time Passes
- J. Sanfey:
- Reality, and Those Who Perceive It
- M. Kafatos, S. Roy and M. Draganescu:
- The Conscious Universe
- Chapter 2: Mathematical Approaches to the Concept of Time
- M. Saniga:
- An Overview
- M. Saniga:
- Geometry of Time and Dimensionality of Space
- J. D. H. Smith:
- Time in Biology and Physics
- G. Jaroszkiewicz:
- Analysis of the Relationship
Between Real and Imaginary Time in Physics
- M. Pavsic:
- Clifford Algebra, Geometry and Physics
- C. Castro:
- The Programs of the Extended Relativity
in C-Spaces: Towards Physical Foundations of String Theory
- M. Planat:
- Time Measurements,
1/F Noise of the Oscillators and Algebraic Numbers
- I. Antoniou and Z. Suchanecki:
- Internal Time and Innovation
- V. Di Gesù and G. M. Palma:
- Quantum Computing: a Way to Break Complexity?
- V. V. Aristov
- On the Relational Statistical Space-Time Concept
- D. B. Kucher and A. G. Shkorbatov:
- Self-organization in Discrete Systems with Fermi-Type Memory
- Chapter 3: The Physicist's View of Time
- W. M. Stuckey:
- An Overview
- R. M. Kiehn:
- Thermodynamic Irreversibility and the Arrow of Time
- Z. Jacobson:
- Time from Quantum Uncertainty
- G. Vitiello:
- The Arrow of Time in Quantum Theories
- I. I. Shevchenko:
- Conformal Time in Cosmology
- B. Lukács:
- Acausality and Retrocausality
in Four- and Higher-Dimensional General Relativity
- F. Lobo and P. Crawford:
- Time, Closed Timelike Curves and Causality
- A. C. Elitzur and S. Dolev:
- Is There More to T?
- A. A. Chernitskii:
- Global Causality in Space-Time Universe
- V. Dzhunushaliev:
- Time at the Origin
of the Universe: Fluctuations Between two Possibilities
- J. S. Eakins:
- Quantum Cellular Automata,
the EPR Paradox and the Stages Paradigm
- S. Roy:
- Planck Scale Physics, Pregeometry and the Notion of Time
- W. M. Stuckey:
- Causality as a Casualty of Pregeometry
- Chapter 4: Integrative Science's Views of Time
- R. Buccheri:
- An Overview
- C. C. Evangeliou:
- The Aristotelian Relation
of Time to Motion and to the Human Soul
- A. Grandpierre:
- The Dynamics of Time and Timelessness:
Philosophy, Physics and Prospects for our Life
- F.-G. Winkler:
- Spacetime Holism and the Passage of Time
- R. Buccheri:
- The Intelligibility of Nature, the Endophysical Paradigm
and the Relationship Between Physical and Psychological Time
- G. Darvas:
- Potential and Actual Time Concepts
- A. P. Levich:
- Paradigms of Natural Science and Substantial Temporology
- Appendix
- G. Jaroszkiewicz:
- Time Questionnaire
- Index