TY - CHAP
T1 - Of Time as an Institution
T2 - A speculative-experimental essay
AU - Vidmar, Matjaz
PY - 2019/7/10
Y1 - 2019/7/10
N2 - Depending on the expert you speak to, you might get confusing or even conflicting definitions of ‘what time’ is. One might assume that such a simple and fundamental quantity is well defined and understood, but this is far from the case. Furthermore, the main scientific disciplines dealing with time – physics and philosophy – find more properties and arguments for what time is not, rather than what it is. And those are just the ‘pure’ (meta)physical notions of time, which get even more confusing when biological and psychological variations are considered. In short, the best definition that physicists can currently offer is that time is a relative quantity established between any two specific frames of reference, to which philosophers might add their long-established opinion that it is metaphysically unreal.
AB - Depending on the expert you speak to, you might get confusing or even conflicting definitions of ‘what time’ is. One might assume that such a simple and fundamental quantity is well defined and understood, but this is far from the case. Furthermore, the main scientific disciplines dealing with time – physics and philosophy – find more properties and arguments for what time is not, rather than what it is. And those are just the ‘pure’ (meta)physical notions of time, which get even more confusing when biological and psychological variations are considered. In short, the best definition that physicists can currently offer is that time is a relative quantity established between any two specific frames of reference, to which philosophers might add their long-established opinion that it is metaphysically unreal.
UR - https://goodpress.co.uk/products/o-by-polina-chizhova-amp-james-stephen-wright
M3 - Foreword/postscript
SN - 978-1-5272-4387-3
BT - O
A2 - Chizhova, Polina
A2 - Wright, James Stephen
ER -