The Reality of Time Flow: Local Becoming in Modern Physics
暫譯: 時間流動的現實：現代物理中的地方性生成
Arthur, Richard T. W.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2019-05-06
- 售價: $3,790
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,601
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 287
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3030159469
- ISBN-13: 9783030159467
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相關分類:
物理學 Physics
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商品描述
It is commonly held that there is no place for the 'now' in physics, and also that the passing of time is something subjective, having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with the way reality is. Indeed, the majority of modern theoretical physicists and philosophers of physics contend that the passing of time is incompatible with modern physical theory, and excluded in a fundamental description of physical reality. This book provides a forceful rebuttal of such claims. In successive chapters the author explains the historical precedents of the modern opposition to time flow, giving careful expositions of matters relevant to becoming in classical physics, the special and general theories of relativity, and quantum theory, without presupposing prior expertise in these subjects. Analysing the arguments of thinkers ranging from Aristotle, Russell, and Bergson to the proponents of quantum gravity, he contends that the passage of time, understood as a local becoming of events out of those in their past at varying rates, is not only compatible with the theories of modern physics, but implicit in them.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
在物理學中，普遍認為「現在」並不存在，時間的流逝也是一種主觀的感受，與現實的經驗方式有關，但與現實的本質無關。事實上，大多數現代理論物理學家和物理哲學家主張，時間的流逝與現代物理理論不相容，並在物理現實的基本描述中被排除。本書對這些主張提供了有力的反駁。在接下來的章節中，作者解釋了現代對時間流逝的反對的歷史先例，詳細闡述了與古典物理學中的變化、特殊相對論和一般相對論、以及量子理論相關的問題，而不需要讀者在這些主題上具備先前的專業知識。作者分析了從亞里士多德、羅素、柏格森到量子引力支持者等思想家的論點，主張時間的流逝，理解為事件以不同速度從其過去中變化為當前狀態的局部過程，不僅與現代物理理論相容，甚至隱含於其中。
作者簡介
Richard T. W. Arthur received a BA in physics from Oxford University and an MA in philosophy from McGill, before gaining a PhD at the University of Western Ontario in 1981, writing his thesis on Time and Temporal Becoming in the Foundations of Physics. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, where he also taught in the Origins Institute, and is now Professor Emeritus. Richard Arthur is past President of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Vice President of the Leibniz Society of North America, and a member of several other professional organisations. He has published widely in the history of philosophy, science and mathematics, as well as in the epistemology of science, and on contemporary issues in the philosophy of physics, especially concerning space and time.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
理查德·T·W·亞瑟（Richard T. W. Arthur）於牛津大學獲得物理學學士學位，並在麥吉爾大學獲得哲學碩士學位，之後於1981年在西安大略大學獲得博士學位，論文主題為《物理學基礎中的時間與時間的生成》（Time and Temporal Becoming in the Foundations of Physics）。自2002年以來，他一直擔任麥克馬斯特大學的哲學教授，並在起源研究所（Origins Institute）任教，現在是名譽教授。理查德·亞瑟曾擔任加拿大科學史與哲學學會的會長，北美萊布尼茲學會的副會長，並且是其他幾個專業組織的成員。他在哲學、科學和數學的歷史方面發表了廣泛的著作，並在科學的認識論以及當代物理哲學的問題上，特別是關於空間和時間的議題上，進行了深入的研究。
