The Natural Philosophy of TimeClarendon Press, 1980 - 399 Seiten |
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... purely motor responses . When it cries with hunger a very young child has its first experience of duration ( ' waiting time ' ) . Each temporal sequence in the child's experi- ence is isolated and purely egocentric : it begins with ...
... purely motor responses . When it cries with hunger a very young child has its first experience of duration ( ' waiting time ' ) . Each temporal sequence in the child's experi- ence is isolated and purely egocentric : it begins with ...
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... purely ordinal and is not a scale of measurement . No numerical operations on the numbers of this scale have any significance . Thus , the difference between the numbers assigned to diamond and to ruby tells us nothing about the ...
... purely ordinal and is not a scale of measurement . No numerical operations on the numbers of this scale have any significance . Thus , the difference between the numbers assigned to diamond and to ruby tells us nothing about the ...
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... purely commonsense objection to Einstein's argument loses its force . Moreover , as we saw when discussing biological time in Chapter 3 , similarly constructed natural clocks do not ' tick ' at the same rate in all circumstances . In ...
... purely commonsense objection to Einstein's argument loses its force . Moreover , as we saw when discussing biological time in Chapter 3 , similarly constructed natural clocks do not ' tick ' at the same rate in all circumstances . In ...
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UNIVERSAL TIME | 1 |
HUMAN TIME | 48 |
BIOLOGICAL TIME | 123 |
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according alpha rhythm animals argued argument Aristotle assigned associated atoms axiom biological clock body brain Bünning causal circadian rhythms circannual concept concerned conclusion consciousness Consequently constant continuous cosmic cycle definition depends direction distance duration E₁ effect Einstein's entropy epoch equation event horizon example existence experience fact finite formula function fundamental particle future galaxies geometry given gravitational hence hypothesis idea infinite instant interval light cones London mathematical matter measure mechanism memory Minkowski diagram Moreover motion moving nature Nevertheless Newton objects observer occur organisms origin oscillations paradox particle horizon particular past perception period phenomena philosophers photons photoperiodic physical physiological possible postulate precedes present principle problem processes regarded relation result reversal scale sense sequence simultaneous space space-time spatial specious present speed succession t₁ t₂ temperature temporal Theory of Relativity tion transl uniform universe velocity of light whereas world line world model Zeno's paradox