Space Time Play

Space Time Play
Author: Friedrich von Borries
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2007-09-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 376438414X

Computer and video games are leaving the PC and conquering the arena of everyday life in the form of mobile applications—the result is new types of cities and architecture. How do these games alter our perception of real and virtual space? What can the designers of physical and digital worlds learn from one another?

Real Time

Real Time
Author: D. H. Mellor
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1985-03-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521284684

Dr Mellor explores the nature of time and how people express tense is not real.

Space and Time in the Microworld

Space and Time in the Microworld
Author: D.I. Blokhintsev
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9401025088

A way of understanding the laws which govem the worId of elementary particIes has not been found yet. Present-day theoretical physicists have to be satisfied with compromises which, at the best, promise some success at the expense of generality and unity. U nder these circumstances a critical analysis of the basic concepts of modem quantum theory may be timely and usefuI. It is hoped that the value of such an analysis may be preserved even if, in the near future, new ways of understanding the basis of elementary particIe physics are discovered. In this monograph one specific aspect of this analysis is treated, namely the problems of geometry in the microworld. An out line of geometrical measurements in the macroworld was given pre viously. These measurements seem to be c1ear enough for at least a certain set of problems to be considered as a starting point for discussing the situation in the microworld. The concepts and methods which are useful in the macroworld may only indirectly be carried over into the microworld and they require a high degree of abstraction. In comprehending the physical content of dynamic variables which have geometric meaning, for example, the space-time partic1e coor dinates x, y, z, t it is of ten necessary to have recourse to gedanken experiments which, although not feasible in practice, can nevertheless be compatible with the basic principles of geometry and quantum mechanics.

The Future of Post-human Space-time

The Future of Post-human Space-time
Author: Peter Baofu
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780820488714

Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many in much of human history, in this book Peter Baofu here proposes what he calls «the perspectival theory of space-time.» According to this theory, there are multiple perspectives of space and time in society, culture, the mind, and nature, all of which are subject to «the regression-progression principle» in «existential dialectics.» These perspectives exist in society, culture, the mind, and nature with good reasons, being subject to «the symmetry-asymmetry principle» in «existential dialectics» and with some being more successful and hegemonic (dominant) than others. Furthermore and more importantly in the long haul, space and time as humans have known them will end and will eventually be altered by post-humans in different forms, be they here in this universe or in multiverses, subject to «the change-constancy principle» in «existential dialectics.»

Not Impossible!

Not Impossible!
Author: G. Hanson
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2004-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0595313329

Does our universe exist inside of a computer? Have the strange phenomena of quantum physics finally been explained? Not IMPOSSIBLE! demonstrates that the surprising answer may be "Yes!" "But the material world is real" we insist, knocking on wood. How can this all be just information inside of a computer? Surely that's impossible! Climb aboard as computer science and AI researcher, G. Wells Hanson, takes us on the seemingly impossible journey from our universe, into the depths of a computerized universe. As you ride, your fingers are pried loose from your current ideas of reality. Watch as your material world slowly begins to fade. You will travel through the machinery of the worlds of human thinking, quantum reality, the brain, and the mind. Finally, you enter a universe programmed within a computer, where the strange phenomena that appear there provides an explanation for the mysterious quantum physics that has puzzled humankind for a century. Shaun Holmes, MA, and high school math teacher, describes the book as "...an intellectual thrill-ride that takes us from our everyday world, to a place where I question my very existence...and there's no going back! I think it really has the potential to stir the pot."

Epheremon: The Particle of Time (The 1st Book of the FAUSTEF TRILOGY)

Epheremon: The Particle of Time (The 1st Book of the FAUSTEF TRILOGY)
Author: V. Alexander STEFAN
Publisher: Stefan University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2002
Genre: Science
ISBN: 188954535X

Badonna, an immortal woman code-12, talks to Faustef about the nature of Time. Faustef, a graduate student in physics, is getting ready for the defense of his thesis the next morning. His thesis is based on the nature of Time as an infinite continuum. Badonna tells him that Time is a corpuscular fluid; that the Time Corpuscle is referred to as the ephemeron. She tells Faustef about the spherical time-matrix, (the carpet of existence), and about the nature of time travel. She tells him that Lucifer and she are the first children-in –creation of QUALB the Giver, the Creator of all that there is; that Orpheus is a son-in-birth of QUALB the Giver; that Lucifer, before his exile, was the Master Guardian of the Atlantis Universe, (our Universe), and the 21 Sibling Universes; that she is referred to as the Mother of the Atlantis Universe and the 21 Sibling Universes. Faustef is disappointed with his thesis; decides to withdraw it and write a new one based on the ephemeron concept. His new thesis is rejected by the Examination Board as a far-fetched idea, being more the work of the magus than a physicist. Faustef is advised by the Board to resubmit his old version of the thesis, which he does, and defends it successfully.

Nonlocal Quantum Field Theory and Stochastic Quantum Mechanics

Nonlocal Quantum Field Theory and Stochastic Quantum Mechanics
Author: K.H. Namsrai
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400945183

over this stochastic space-time leads to the non local fields considered by G. V. Efimov. In other words, stochasticity of space-time (after being averaged on a large scale) as a self-memory makes the theory nonlocal. This allows one to consider in a unified way the effect of stochasticity (or nonlocality) in all physical processes. Moreover, the universal character of this hypothesis of space-time at small distances enables us to re-interpret the dynamics of stochastic particles and to study some important problems of the theory of stochastic processes [such as the relativistic description of diffusion, Feynman type processes, and the problem of the origin of self-turbulence in the motion of free particles within nonlinear (stochastic) mechanics]. In this direction our approach (Part II) may be useful in recent developments of the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics and fields due to E. Nelson, D. Kershaw, I. Fenyes, F. Guerra, de la Pena-Auerbach, J. -P. Vigier, M. Davidson, and others. In particular, as shown by N. Cufaro Petroni and J. -P. Vigier, within the discussed approach, a causal action-at-distance interpretation of a series of experiments by A. Aspect and his co-workers indicating a possible non locality property of quantum mechanics, may also be obtained. Aspect's results have recently inspired a great interest in different nonlocal theories and models devoted to an understanding of the implications of this nonlocality. This book consists of two parts.

Time in Science and Philosophy

Time in Science and Philosophy
Author: Jiří Zeman
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1971
Genre: Science
ISBN:

"Time is one of the most fundamental problems facing modern scientists and philosophers: the aim of this work is to shed light on the topic from various viewpoints and thus to promote understanding among specialists from several fields, and between East and West. The first section of the volume deals with the problems of time in astronomy and physics. Among the problems under scrutiny here are the direction and the irreversibility of time and some general physical problems of time touching on questions of philosophy. The second part is concerned with problems of time in geology, biology, and psychology: the third with problems of philosophy (although these are also treated in other chapters). The concluding fourth part considers problems of time measurement. The work should make a positive contribution to interdisciplinary understanding."--inside front flap.

My Passion

My Passion
Author: V. Alexander Stefan
Publisher: Stefan University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1889545937