- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/10110913/9781471682087.jpg)
- Author: Samuel K K Blankson
- Publisher: Lulu.com
- ISBN-10: 1471682080
- ISBN-13: 9781471682087
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
On the nature and passage of time and 4-D geometry (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
Reviews
Description
PAPERBACK: In his 10th book on post-relativity philosophy of time, the Ghanaian philosopher argues that all the theories we read about time are useful only for constructing clocks to accord accurately with the earth's regular motions and astronomical features. The many bemusing technical terms employed (like duration between events, sidereal time, solar time, nutation, equinox, earth's rotation, the precession of the equinoxes etc.), were all invented to account for fixed, general and absolute time, running all through the cosmos and the same everywhere. This view of time, however, was abolished by Einstein. He adds that everything we have ever used to reckon time (including atomic time) amounts to mere physical cycles, pulses or oscillations that we count as the units of time---the years, for instance---but they are passing. He has also uncovered Einstein's undoubted snub to 4-D geometry.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 16d.18:55:12
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Samuel K K Blankson
- Publisher: Lulu.com
- ISBN-10: 1471682080
- ISBN-13: 9781471682087
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
PAPERBACK: In his 10th book on post-relativity philosophy of time, the Ghanaian philosopher argues that all the theories we read about time are useful only for constructing clocks to accord accurately with the earth's regular motions and astronomical features. The many bemusing technical terms employed (like duration between events, sidereal time, solar time, nutation, equinox, earth's rotation, the precession of the equinoxes etc.), were all invented to account for fixed, general and absolute time, running all through the cosmos and the same everywhere. This view of time, however, was abolished by Einstein. He adds that everything we have ever used to reckon time (including atomic time) amounts to mere physical cycles, pulses or oscillations that we count as the units of time---the years, for instance---but they are passing. He has also uncovered Einstein's undoubted snub to 4-D geometry.
Reviews