Time and Reality
F 2022

Description

What is Time? Time is a mysterious and fascinating concept humans in the history of mankind. Is time real, is time an illusion and if it is real how do you measure it? If it is an illusion how do you define it? In the Network of Time the author tries to understand the concept of time through Philosophy, History and Physics. Using plain language and little or no mathematics the author elaborates on Stephen Hawkins' A Brief history of Time. This SDG will use both books to study mankind's the concept of time through history and effects on societies.

Weekly Topics

Chapter 1 - The Great Riddle - The question of time in Philosophy during Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Chapter 2 - New Horizons - The Early New Age and the New Philosophy.

Chapter 3 - The Universe as a Machine - Newton and Classical Physics.

Chapter 4 - From the Past to the Future, and Back - The Arrow of Time

Chapter 5 - Space-Time - The Special Theory of Relativity

Chapter 6 - The Time tunnel -Time Travel and Wormholes

Chapter 7 - The End of the Age of Certainty - Quantum Theory and the measurement Problem

Chapter 8 - The Hidden Universe - Quantum Entanglement

Chapter 9 - The Death Blow - The Concept of time in the 20th Century

Chapter 10 - Doctor Chaos and Mr. Order - Complexity Theory

Chapter 11 - Nothing but Net - Network Theory

Chapter 12 - The End of Time and Rebirth? - Julian Barbour & Lee Smolin

Chapter 13 - Revolution - The Advancement of Scientific Knowledge

Chapter 14 - The Paradigm Margins - New Insights in the 2nd Decade of the 20th Century.)

Chapter 15 - The Science of Choice - Free Choice in the network of Time                                )


Bibliography

1. The Network of Time - Understanding Time and Reality through Philosophy, History and Physics by Alon Halperin, ebookPro Publisher, 2020

2. A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawkins with Leonard Mlodinow - Bantam Paperback Edition -2008 (Much easier read than the original Hawkin's version)

3. Until the End of Time, Brian Green, Penguin Books 2021

4. https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-beginning-universe/

5.https://www.realclearscience.com/2021/10/30/what_should_everyone_know_about_quantum_mechanics_801318.html

6. https://gizmodo.com/what-we-will-never-know-1848104677

7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

8. https://www.sciencealert.com/time

9. https://www.wired.com/2010/02/what-is-time/

10.  https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-time-a-history-of-physics-biology-clocks-and-culture-20200504/

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAScJvxCy2Y

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rWqJhDv7M

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TiQidGPHA4




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