The Natural Philosophy of TimeClarendon Press, 1980 - 399 Seiten |
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... thought to be comparatively short lived . Assuming the validity of Eddington's law that luminosity is a function of mass , it follows that , since the rate of loss of mass in the thermonuclear process is very small , a star like the sun ...
... thought to be comparatively short lived . Assuming the validity of Eddington's law that luminosity is a function of mass , it follows that , since the rate of loss of mass in the thermonuclear process is very small , a star like the sun ...
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... thought ( and likewise in other ancient cosmologies , for example Hindu , Maya , etc. ) time was regarded as essentially periodic , because the universe was thought to be cyclic . F. M. Cornford ( 1937 ) points out that the origin of ...
... thought ( and likewise in other ancient cosmologies , for example Hindu , Maya , etc. ) time was regarded as essentially periodic , because the universe was thought to be cyclic . F. M. Cornford ( 1937 ) points out that the origin of ...
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... thought and the thought of succession . Our conscious appreciation of the fact that one event follows another is of a different kind from our awareness of either event separately . If two events are to be represented as occurring in ...
... thought and the thought of succession . Our conscious appreciation of the fact that one event follows another is of a different kind from our awareness of either event separately . If two events are to be represented as occurring in ...
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UNIVERSAL TIME | 1 |
HUMAN TIME | 48 |
BIOLOGICAL TIME | 123 |
Urheberrecht | |
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