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LITTLE BOOK SERIES THE LITTLE BOOK OF TIME - ...

chapter 1 Time in the Classical and Medieval Worldviews From the Beginnings to the Pre-Socratic
School Zeno's Time Arrow and Aristotle's Continuum 6 Time and Creation According to Saint
Augustine 15 Time and Medieval Astronomy 18 20 Calendars and Clocks chapter 2 Time in the
Worldview of Classical Physics 25 Absolute Time According to Newton 26 Relational Time
According to Leibniz 30 Time in Classical Mechanics 31 Time in Kant's Epistemology 35 chapter 3
Relativistic Spacetime 43 Time in Special Relativity Theory 44 Time in General Relativity
Theory 50 Time in Relativistic Cosmology 54 chapter 4 Time and the Quantum World 61 Time in
Quantum Mechanics 62 Time in Quantum Field Theories 70 Time  Black Holes  and the Anthropic
Principle 78 Time and Thermodynamics chapter 5 83 Time in Equilibrium Thermodynamics 84 Time in
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics 2 9 Time  Irreversibility  and Self-Organization 100 chapter 6
Time and Life 107 Time in Darwin's Theory of Evolution 108 Time in Molecular Evolution 111 Time
Hierarchies and Biological Rhythms 117 chapter 7 Time and Consciousness 121 Temporal Rhythms
and Brain Physiology 122 The Experience of Time and the Emergence of Consciousness 124
Computation Time and Artificial Intelligence 128 chapter 8 Time in History and Culture 137 Time
in Historical Cultures 138 Time in Technological-Industrial Cultures 144 The Time Horizon of
the Technological World and the Philosophy of Time 152 Further Reading 161 Index 167
Acknowledgments The Little Book of Time was inspired by my research in

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