Time’s Arrows Today: Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time by Steven F. Savitt (PDF)

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While experience tells us that time flows from the past to the present and into the future, a number of philosophical and physical objections exist to this commonsense view of dynamic time. In an attempt to make sense of this conundrum, philosophers and physicists are forced to confront fascinating questions, such as: Can effects precede causes? Can one travel in time? Can the expansion of the Universe or the process of measurement in quantum mechanics define a direction in time? In this book, researchers from both physics and philosophy attempt to answer these issues in an interesting, yet rigorous way. This fascinating book will be of interest to physicists and philosophers of science and educated general readers interested in the direction of time.

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⭐From Preface: “Most of the work in this volume was presented at the ‘Time’s Arrows Today’ Conference held on the campus of the University of British Columbia in June, 1992.”The articles in this book are really research papers about “time” and are very technical, these papers were really written for other “eminent scholars.” If that is what you are looking for, this is your book. I found most of the articles unreadable due to there complexity (I am a lay person interested in “time” and science).If you want read some books on “time,” here are a few that are actually readable:G.J. Whitrow’s “The Natural Philosophy of Time,” second edition, 1980, does great job of discussing and elucidating these tricky issues of “time.” Whitrow’s book also presents a wonderful historical perspective of the human concept of “time” throughout the ages.Also interesting is “chronos,” by Etienne Klein, originally published in French in 2003, English translation 2005. This book is a diamond in the ruff which contains some interesting ideas, e.g. footnote 3 (located on p. 168) to Chapter 7, where Klein discusses Albert Le Grand (1200-1280), and Le Grand’s statement:”What depends on the soul is not the existence of time, but the perception of time.”And this to me this what so many people who write and discuss “time” seem to miss. The existence of “time” does not need humans or human “consciousness,” “time” existed before humans and will exist after humans are gone. What we struggle with is the perception of “time.”Other good books are “About Time- Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution,” 1995, by Paul Davies; “The Arrow of Time” by Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield; “The River of Time” by Igor D. Novikov.

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