The Logic of Time in the Universe: A Critique of Professor Yourgrau's "World Without Time"
Author: Samuel K.K. Blankson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1446763048
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Philosophical Essays
Author: Samuel K. K. Blankson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1447767934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHARDBACK - A collection of essays on time by Samuel K. K. Blankson. His basic argument is that units of time (such as the year and its subdivisions down to the seconds and even the cesium units, etc.), replicate to make us see time as passing by. Time travel is not possible from his point of view and he goes on to reject the Minkowski theory of space-time as a distortion of relativity and physics as a whole.
Time and the Application of Time
Author: Samuel K K Blankson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-05-24
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 1445725010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this monograph, the Ghanaian philosopher, Samuel K. K. Blankson, takes up the question of time. He argues that time and the application of time are two different things in the mind, but often they are conflated in practice. For example, he says if you want to know the true nature of time you cannot rely on the clock, no matter how it is analysed. Under relativity there is no longer a universal time; therefore how we get our own peculiar earth time to programme into the clock is what you want to know. Also he claims that the merger of space and time in the Minkowski theory of "space-time" is tautology; it is not a new way of giving us our earth time as "space-time." To merge time with space means the time was there already! On the other hand, to argue that there is time already but has now been merged with space is logically untenable---man cannot use mathematics alone to alter natural entities physically.
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE AS TIME IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE - SECOND EDITION
Author: Samuel K. K. Blankson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-01-31
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1326535919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is about the post-relativity philosophy of time as championed by Bertrand Russell and Einstein. It argues that The Past, Present and Future notion of time is an illusion. The sun, as daylight, is on constantly with no temporal past and future, except in chemistry perhaps. Only the earth's revolutions bring temporary days and nights. So the Bertrand Russell notion that under relativity man constructs his time is logically unassailable (the days, weeks, months and years are all human concepts.) Relativity allows time to begin from anywhere. So the revolutionary view is that there are or can be as many times as there are frames, or planets---a world-changing idea but true because it is based on objective, physical experiments, but generally ignored.
A World Without Time
Author: Palle Yourgrau
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009-03-04
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 078673700X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Godel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist . Einstein endorsed this result-reluctantly, since it decisively overthrew the classical world-view to which he was committed. But he could find no way to refute it, and in the half-century since then, neither has anyone else. Even more remarkable than this stunning discovery, however, was what happened afterward: nothing. Cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded with their work as if Godel's proof never existed -one of the greatest scandals of modern intellectual history. A World Without Time is a sweeping, ambitious book, and yet poignant and intimate. It tells the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the brilliant work they did together.
Gödel Meets Einstein
Author: Palle Yourgrau
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an expansion of the author's 1991 work which investigates the implications of Gödel's writings on Einstein's theory of relativity as they relate to the fundamental questions of the nature of time and the possibilities for time travel.
When Einstein Walked with Gödel
Author: Jim Holt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0374717842
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought. Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites us to consider why the greatest logician of the twentieth century believed the U.S. Constitution contained a terrible contradiction—and whether the universe truly has a future.
Incompleteness
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2006-01-31
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0393327604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An introduction to the life and thought of Kurt Gödel, who transformed our conception of math forever"--Provided by publisher.
Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Author: Peter Galison
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-09-14
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0393326047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others . . . Galison has unearthed fascinating material." ("New York Times").
