The aim of this interdisciplinary study is to reconstruct the evolution of our changing conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. It will adopt a new perspective and organize the material around three central themes, which run through our history of time reckoning: cosmology and regularity; stasis and flux; symmetry and asymmetry. It is the physical criteria that humans choose - relativistic effects and time-symmetric equations or dynamic-kinematic effects and asymmetric conditions - that establish our views on the nature of time. This book will defend a dynamic rather than a static view of time.
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Weinert, F. (2013). The march of time: Evolving conceptions of time in the light of scientific discoveries. The March of Time: Evolving Conceptions of Time in the Light of Scientific Discoveries (Vol. 9783642353475, pp. 1–284). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35347-5
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