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Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; Abstract; Bibliography; 2 The Main Issues; Abstract; 2.1 Time and Space in Everyday Life; 2.2 Dialectics of Time and Dialectics of Space; 2.3 The Lack of Theory; 2.4 The Problem Situation; Bibliography; 3 The Failure of Dialectics; Abstract; 3.1 Confusion Between Time and Event; 3.2 Terminological Confusion; 3.3 Truisms and Pleonasms; 3.4 Adjunction of Exotic Concepts; 3.4.1 The Concept; 3.4.2 Concept and Exo-Concept; 3.4.3 Conception and Artifact; 3.5 The Dichotomy Between Time and Space; 3.6 Metaphors with Time and Space.
3.6.1 The Dynamics of Time3.6.2 The Action of Time; 3.6.3 The Arrow of Time; 3.6.4 Metaphors of Space; 3.7 Sensitive Topics; Bibliography; 4 Reality, Concepts, and Models; Abstract; 4.1 Reality and Mathematics; 4.1.1 Naturalia; 4.1.2 Mathematical Artefacts; 4.2 The Origin of Mathematics; 4.3 The Association of Nature and Culture; 4.4 Mathematical Modeling of Reality; 4.4.1 Arithmetical Modeling; 4.4.2 Geometrical Modeling; 4.4.3 Statistical Modeling; 4.4.4 The Rest of the Universe; 4.4.5 Diachrony of Physical Laws; 4.5 Field Effects; 4.5.1 Primary Field Effects (PFE).
4.5.2 Technical Field Effects (TFE)4.5.3 The Field Model Effect (FME); Bibliography; 5 Origins of Time and Origins of Space; Abstract; 5.1 Discoveries or Inventions?; 5.2 Parietal Iconography; 5.3 Precursors of Temporality and Spatiality; 5.4 The Sign in Africa; 5.4.1 The Dogon; 5.4.2 The Luba; 5.5 The Mayan Empire; 5.6 India; 5.7 Greece; 5.8 Rome and Roman Times; 5.8.1 Time Precursors; 5.8.2 Space Precursors; 5.8.3 Composite Precursors; 5.9 China; 5.9.1 Time; 5.9.2 Space; 5.10 Sun Worship; 5.10.1 The Nebra Sky Disk; 5.10.2 The Trundholm Sun Chariot; 5.10.3 Sun Worship in Egypt.
5.11 The Symbol of Spread Wings5.11.1 Shamanism; 5.11.2 Bactria; 5.11.3 Gandhara; 5.11.4 Greece; 5.11.5 Luristan; 5.11.6 Venice; 5.11.7 The Roman Empire; 5.11.8 Christianity; 5.12 The Winged Sun; 5.12.1 Phoenicia; 5.12.2 Mitanni; 5.12.3 The Hittite Empire; 5.12.4 Assyria; 5.12.5 Persia; 5.12.6 Mesopotomia; 5.12.7 Nowadays; 5.13 Proto-Temporality in Egypt; 5.14 Proto-Spatiality in Tuareg Culture; 5.15 Proto-Temporality in the Hittite Empire; 5.16 Proto-Temporality in Mesopotamia; Bibliography; 6 Definitions and Nature of Time; Abstract; 6.1 Defining the Units of Time.
6.1.1 Definition of the Day6.1.2 Definition of the Hour; 6.1.3 Definition of the Year; 6.1.4 Definition of the Second; 6.1.5 Reality and Concepts; 6.1.6 The Substitution Rule; 6.2 The State of a System; 6.2.1 Transtability; 6.2.2 Speed and Rate of Transtability; 6.2.3 Radio-Dating; 6.2.4 Thermoluminescence; 6.2.5 Entomological Dating; 6.3 Definitions of Time; 6.3.1 Definition of Time via the Earth/Sun Configuration; 6.3.2 With a Conventional Clock; 6.3.3 With a Cesium Clock; 6.3.4 General Definition; 6.4 Phenomenology of Time; 6.4.1 Time Cannot Be Detected; 6.4.2 Time Is Powerless; 6.4.3 Time Has No Source.
3.6.1 The Dynamics of Time3.6.2 The Action of Time; 3.6.3 The Arrow of Time; 3.6.4 Metaphors of Space; 3.7 Sensitive Topics; Bibliography; 4 Reality, Concepts, and Models; Abstract; 4.1 Reality and Mathematics; 4.1.1 Naturalia; 4.1.2 Mathematical Artefacts; 4.2 The Origin of Mathematics; 4.3 The Association of Nature and Culture; 4.4 Mathematical Modeling of Reality; 4.4.1 Arithmetical Modeling; 4.4.2 Geometrical Modeling; 4.4.3 Statistical Modeling; 4.4.4 The Rest of the Universe; 4.4.5 Diachrony of Physical Laws; 4.5 Field Effects; 4.5.1 Primary Field Effects (PFE).
4.5.2 Technical Field Effects (TFE)4.5.3 The Field Model Effect (FME); Bibliography; 5 Origins of Time and Origins of Space; Abstract; 5.1 Discoveries or Inventions?; 5.2 Parietal Iconography; 5.3 Precursors of Temporality and Spatiality; 5.4 The Sign in Africa; 5.4.1 The Dogon; 5.4.2 The Luba; 5.5 The Mayan Empire; 5.6 India; 5.7 Greece; 5.8 Rome and Roman Times; 5.8.1 Time Precursors; 5.8.2 Space Precursors; 5.8.3 Composite Precursors; 5.9 China; 5.9.1 Time; 5.9.2 Space; 5.10 Sun Worship; 5.10.1 The Nebra Sky Disk; 5.10.2 The Trundholm Sun Chariot; 5.10.3 Sun Worship in Egypt.
5.11 The Symbol of Spread Wings5.11.1 Shamanism; 5.11.2 Bactria; 5.11.3 Gandhara; 5.11.4 Greece; 5.11.5 Luristan; 5.11.6 Venice; 5.11.7 The Roman Empire; 5.11.8 Christianity; 5.12 The Winged Sun; 5.12.1 Phoenicia; 5.12.2 Mitanni; 5.12.3 The Hittite Empire; 5.12.4 Assyria; 5.12.5 Persia; 5.12.6 Mesopotomia; 5.12.7 Nowadays; 5.13 Proto-Temporality in Egypt; 5.14 Proto-Spatiality in Tuareg Culture; 5.15 Proto-Temporality in the Hittite Empire; 5.16 Proto-Temporality in Mesopotamia; Bibliography; 6 Definitions and Nature of Time; Abstract; 6.1 Defining the Units of Time.
6.1.1 Definition of the Day6.1.2 Definition of the Hour; 6.1.3 Definition of the Year; 6.1.4 Definition of the Second; 6.1.5 Reality and Concepts; 6.1.6 The Substitution Rule; 6.2 The State of a System; 6.2.1 Transtability; 6.2.2 Speed and Rate of Transtability; 6.2.3 Radio-Dating; 6.2.4 Thermoluminescence; 6.2.5 Entomological Dating; 6.3 Definitions of Time; 6.3.1 Definition of Time via the Earth/Sun Configuration; 6.3.2 With a Conventional Clock; 6.3.3 With a Cesium Clock; 6.3.4 General Definition; 6.4 Phenomenology of Time; 6.4.1 Time Cannot Be Detected; 6.4.2 Time Is Powerless; 6.4.3 Time Has No Source.