Space, time, and the limits of human understanding / Shyam Wuppuluri, Giancarlo Ghirardi, editors.
Wuppuluri, Shyam, editor.; Ghirardi, G. C., editor.; Stachel, John J., 1928- writer of foreword.; Chomsky, Noam, writer of afterword.
2017
QC173.59.S65 S654 2017e
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Title Space, time, and the limits of human understanding / Shyam Wuppuluri, Giancarlo Ghirardi, editors.
ISBN 9783319444185 (electronic book)
3319444182 (electronic book)
9783319444178
3319444174
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44418-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 530 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-44418-5 doi
Call Number QC173.59.S65 S654 2017e
Dewey Decimal Classification 121
Summary "In this compendium of essays, some of the world's leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline. With an epilogue on the limits of human understanding, this volume hosts contributions from six or more diverse fields. It presumes only rudimentary background knowledge on the part of the reader. Time and again, through the prism of intellect, humans have tried to diffract reality into various distinct, yet seamless, atomic, yet holistic, independent, yet interrelated disciplines and have attempted to study it contextually. Philosophers debate the paradoxes, or engage in meditations, dialogues and reflections on the content and nature of space and time. Physicists, too, have been trying to mold space and time to fit their notions concerning micro- and macro-worlds. Mathematicians focus on the abstract aspects of space, time and measurement. While cognitive scientists ponder over the perceptual and experiential facets of our consciousness of space and time, computer scientists theoretically and practically try to optimize the space-time complexities in storing and retrieving data/information. The list is never-ending. Linguists, logicians, artists, evolutionary biologists, geographers etc., all are trying to weave a web of understanding around the same duo. However, our endeavour into a world of such endless imagination is restrained by intellectual dilemmas such as: Can humans comprehend everything? Are there any limits? Can finite thought fathom infinity? We have sought far and wide among the best minds to furnish articles that provide an overview of the above topics. We hope that, through this journey, a symphony of patterns and tapestry of intuitions will emerge, providing the reader with insights into the questions: What is Space? What is Time? Chapter [15] of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license."--Provided by publisher.
Note "Foreword by John Stachel and Afterword by Noam Chomsky."
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Ghirardi, G. C., editor.
Stachel, John J., 1928- writer of foreword.
Chomsky, Noam, writer of afterword.
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Space as a source and as an object of knowledge : the transformation of the concept of space in the post-Kantian philosphy of geometry / Francesca Biagioli
Time in physics and time in awareness / E. C. G. Sudarshan
Time and space in ancient India : pre-philosophical period / Nataliya Yanchevskaya
Śrīharṣa on the indefinability of time / Jonathan Duquette and Krishnamurti Ramasubramanian
From time to time / Nathan Salmon
Why spacetime has a life of its own / James Robert Brown
The phenomenology of space and time : Husserl, Sartre, Derrida / Hans Herlof Grelland
Space, time, and (how they) matter / Valia Allori
Relativity theory may not have the last word on the nature of time : quantum theory and probabilism / Nicholas Maxwell
Nature's book keeping system / Gerard 't Hooft
Spacetime and reality : facing the ultimate judge / Vesselin Petkov
The future's not ours to see / Anthony Sudbery
Hermann Weyl's space-time geometry and its impact on theories of fundamental interactions / Norbert Straumann
Matter, space, time, and motion : a unified gravitational perspective / C. S. Unnikrishnan
An anomaly in space and time and the origin of dynamics / Joan A. Vaccaro
Space, time, and adynamical explanation in the relational blockworld / W. M. Stuckey, Michael Silberstein, Timothy McDevitt
Spacetime is doomed / George Musser
Geometry and physical space / Mary Leng
The geometry of manifolds and the perception of space / Raymond O. Wells Jr.
Paradox? the mathematics of space-time and the limits of human understanding / Paul Ernest
"Now" has an infinitesimal positive duration / Reuben Hersh
What's wrong with the Platonic ideal of space and time? / Lorenzo Sadun
The fundamental problem of dynamics / Julian Barbour
General relativity, time, and determinism / James Isenberg
Topos theoretic approach to space and time / Goro C. Kato
Syntactic space / Rajesh Kasturirangan
Time measurement in living systems : human understanding and health implications / Lakshman Abhilash and Vijay Kumar Sharma
The cellular space : the space of life / Pier Luigi Luisi
The consciousness of space, the space of consciousness / Mauro Bergonzi and Pier Luigi Luisi
Time and suffering : false metaphors, (de-)synchronous times, and internal dynamics / Norman Sieroka
Evolutionary time and the creation of the space of life / Randall E. Auxier
A computational mathematics view of space, time and complexity / David H. Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein
'Photographing the footsteps of time' : space and time in Charles Babbage's calculating engines / Doron Swade
The black hole in mathematics / Alexander Keewatin Dewdney
Gödel incompleteness and the empirical sciences / N. C. A. Costa
Gödel's ontological dreams / Gary Mar
The novel and the map : spatiotemporal form and discourse in literary cartography / Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Time, space, and the human geographies of opportunity / Donald G. Janelle
Losing time and space : experiencing immersion / Diana J. Reichenbach
Science, mind, and limits of understanding / Noam Chomsky.

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