Concepts of Simultaneity
Author | : Max Jammer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780801884221 |
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Author | : Max Jammer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780801884221 |
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Author | : William Lane Craig |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2007-11-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134003897 |
Presenting a collection of original essays from a team of international philosophers and physicists, this volume reassesses the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. There is no other book like this currently available.
Author | : Max Jammer |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0801889537 |
Max Jammer's Concepts of Simultaneity presents a comprehensive, accessible account of the historical development of an important and controversial concept—which played a critical role in initiating modern theoretical physics—from the days of Egyptian hieroglyphs through to Einstein's work in 1905, and beyond. Beginning with the use of the concept of simultaneity in ancient Egypt and in the Bible, the study discusses its role in Greek and medieval philosophy as well as its significance in Newtonian physics and in the ideas of Leibniz, Kant, and other classical philosophers. The central theme of Jammer's presentation is a critical analysis of the use of this concept by philosophers of science, like Poincaré, and its significant role in inaugurating modern theoretical physics in Einstein's special theory of relativity. Particular attention is paid to the philosophical problem of whether the notion of distant simultaneity presents a factual reality or only a hypothetical convention. The study concludes with an analysis of simultaneity's importance in general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Author | : Jay Lampert |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-02-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441126392 |
An innovative new theory of 'staggered time', based on the relation between simultaneity and delay.
Author | : Henri Bergson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This philosophical text deals with the theme of time. A central contention is that science and philosophy alike systematically misrepresent the nature of time. Bergson suggests that the traditional association between the model of space and time is incoherent. Unlike space, time is not measurable by objective standard. This contention is tried out against the major movement in physics of the day - relativity. Tracing the development of the theory from special to general relativity, Bergson finds that a fundamental requirement of the theory is an impossibility - the assumption that the experiences of two observers moving at different speeds within two different physical systems might be thought of as simultaneous. This is to ignore the limits of possible experience.
Author | : Sander Bais |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780674026117 |
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, first published in 1905, radically changed our understanding of the world. Familiar notions of space and time and energy were turned on their head, and our struggle with Einstein's counterintuitive explanation of these concepts was under way. The task is no easier today than it was a hundred years ago, but in this book Sander Bais has found an original and uniquely effective way to convey the fundamental ideas of Einstein's Special Theory. Bais's previous book, The Equations, was widely read and roundly praised for its clear and commonsense explanation of the math in physics. Very Special Relativity brings the same accessible approach to Einstein's theory. Using a series of easy-to-follow diagrams and employing only elementary high school geometry, Bais conducts readers through the quirks and quandaries of such fundamental concepts as simultaneity, causality, and time dilation. The diagrams also illustrate the difference between the Newtonian view, in which time was universal, and the Einsteinian, in which the speed of light is universal. Following Bais's straightforward sequence of simple, commonsense arguments, readers can tinker with the theory and its great paradoxes and, finally, arrive at a truly deep understanding of Einstein's interpretation of space and time. An intellectual journey into the heart of the Special Theory, the book offers an intimate look at the terms and ideas that define our reality.
Author | : OpenStax |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2016-11-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781680920451 |
University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result. The text and images in this textbook are grayscale.
Author | : Jay Lampert |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2012-02-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1441196110 |
Through original speculations on the surprisingly complementary concepts of simultaneity and delay, and new interpretations of the great philosophers of time, this book proposes an innovative theory of staggered time. In the early 20th Century, Bergson and Husserl (following Einstein) made Simultaneity-what it means for events to occur at the same time-a central motif in philosophy. In the late 20th Century, Derrida and Deleuze instead emphasized Delay-events staggered over distant times. This struggle between convergent and staggered time also plays out in 20th Century aesthetics (especially music), politics, and the sciences. Despite their importance in the history of philosophy, this is the first book to comprehensively examine the concepts of simultaneity and delay. By putting simultaneity and delay into a dialectical relation, this book argues that time in general is organized by elastic rhythms. Lampert's concepts describe the time-structures of such diverse phenomena as atonal music, political decision-making, neuronal delays, leaps of memory and the boredom of waiting; and simultaneities and delays in everyday experience and behaviour.
Author | : Percy Williams Bridgman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Knowledge, Theory of |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Myriam Vermeerbergen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027247964 |
Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information simultaneously. Over the past fifteen years, there has been a growing interest in the issue of simultaneity in signed languages. However, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive treatment of this topic, presenting a collection of papers dealing with different aspects of simultaneity in a range of related and unrelated signed languages, in descriptive and cross-linguistic treatments which are set in different theoretical frameworks. This volume has relevance for those interested in sign linguistics, in teaching and learning signed languages, and is also highly recommended to anyone interested in the fundamental underpinnings of human language and the effects of signed versus spoken modality.