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Time S Arrow Time S Cycle
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Author : Stephen Jay Gould
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1988-01-01
Time S Arrow Time S Cycle written by Stephen Jay Gould and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with Science categories.
Stephen Jay Gould’s subject is nothing less than geology’s signal contribution to human thought—the discovery of “deep time,” the vastness of earth’s history, a history so ancient that we can comprehend it only as metaphor.
Time S Arrow Time S Cycle
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Author : Stephen Jay Gould
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1987
Time S Arrow Time S Cycle written by Stephen Jay Gould and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Science categories.
Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.
Source Book In Geology 1900 1950
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Author : Kirtley Fletcher Mather
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1967
Source Book In Geology 1900 1950 written by Kirtley Fletcher Mather and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Science categories.
Here, find source literature for the most important contributions to the remarkable recent expansion of geological knowledge. Excerpted are 65 articles on topics including the constitution of Earth's interior, earthquakes, radioactive timekeepers, submarine features and deep-sea cores, entrapment of petroleum, and crystal structure.
The Abyss Of Time
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Author : Paul Lyle
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-05
The Abyss Of Time written by Paul Lyle and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Science categories.
Man’s fascination with time, its extent and its measurement, is Paul Lyle’s starting point as he considers the relationship of deep time and the Earth’s geological resources with modern consumer society.
Full House
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Author : Stephen Jay Gould
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-10
Full House written by Stephen Jay Gould and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10 with History categories.
Gould shows why a more accurate way of understanding our world is to look at a given subject within its own context, to see it as a part of a spectrum of variation and then to reconceptualize trends as expansion or contraction of this “full house” of variation, and not as the progress or degeneration of an average value, or single thing.
Supercontinent
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Author : Ted Nield
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007
Supercontinent written by Ted Nield and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Explores the Supercontinent Cycle from the earliest recorded time to the geological discoveries of today including the drifting of the continents and the evolution of dinosaurs.
Complexity And The Arrow Of Time
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Author : Charles H. Lineweaver
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-08-08
Complexity And The Arrow Of Time written by Charles H. Lineweaver and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with Philosophy categories.
Written by a wide range of experts, this work presents cosmological, biological and philosophical perspectives on complexity in our universe.
Time S Arrow And Archimedes Point
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Author : Huw Price
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-04
Time S Arrow And Archimedes Point written by Huw Price and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-04 with Philosophy categories.
Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way. Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Why, for example, does disorder always increase, as required by the second law of thermodynamics? Price shows that, for over a century, most physicists have thought about these problems the wrong way. Misled by the human perspective from within time, which distorts and exaggerates the differences between past and future, they have fallen victim to what Price calls the "double standard fallacy": proposed explanations of the difference between the past and the future turn out to rely on a difference which has been slipped in at the beginning, when the physicists themselves treat the past and future in different ways. To avoid this fallacy, Price argues, we need to overcome our natural tendency to think about the past and the future differently. We need to imagine a point outside time -- an Archimedean "view from nowhen" -- from which to observe time in an unbiased way. Offering a lively criticism of many major modern physicists, including Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking, Price shows that this fallacy remains common in physics today -- for example, when contemporary cosmologists theorize about the eventual fate of the universe. The "big bang" theory normally assumes that the beginning and end of the universe will be very different. But if we are to avoid the double standard fallacy, we need to consider time symmetrically, and take seriously the possibility that the arrow of time may reverse when the universe recollapses into a "big crunch." Price then turns to the greatest mystery of modern physics, the meaning of quantum theory. He argues that in missing the Archimedean viewpoint, modern physics has missed a radical and attractive solution to many of the apparent paradoxes of quantum physics. Many consequences of quantum theory appear counterintuitive, such as Schrodinger's Cat, whose condition seems undetermined until observed, and Bell's Theorem, which suggests a spooky "nonlocality," where events happening simultaneously in different places seem to affect each other directly. Price shows that these paradoxes can be avoided by allowing that at the quantum level the future does, indeed, affect the past. This demystifies nonlocality, and supports Einstein's unpopular intuition that quantum theory describes an objective world, existing independently of human observers: the Cat is alive or dead, even when nobody looks. So interpreted, Price argues, quantum mechanics is simply the kind of theory we ought to have expected in microphysics -- from the symmetric standpoint. Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point presents an innovative and controversial view of time and contemporary physics. In this exciting book, Price urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has ever pondered the mysteries of time to look at the world from the fresh perspective of Archimedes' Point and gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, the universe around us, and our own place in time.
Bach S Cycle Mozart S Arrow
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Author : Karol Berger
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-10-02
Bach S Cycle Mozart S Arrow written by Karol Berger and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-02 with Music categories.
In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this historical moment, as Berger illustrates in his analysis of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, music was simply "in time." Its successive events unfolded one after another, but the distinction between past and future, earlier and later, was not central to the way the music was experienced and understood. But after the shift, as he finds in looking at Mozart's Don Giovanni, the experience of linear time is transformed into music's essential subject matter; the cycle of time unbends and becomes an arrow. Berger complements these musical case studies with a rich survey of the philosophical, theological, and literary trends influencing artists during this period.