Modern Mathematical Models of Time and their Applications to Physics and Cosmology
Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, 11-13 April, 1996
By: edited by W.G. Tifft, W.J. Cocke
Contributors: Cocke, W. J.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Imprint; Springer
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9789401156288
Other titles: Proceedings of the International Conference held in Tucson, AZ, from 11-13 April 1996
Description: The nature of time has long puzzled physicists and philosophers. Time potentially has very fundamental yet unknown properties. In 1993 a new model of multi-dimensional time was found to relate closely to properties of the cosmological redshift. An international conference was subsequently convened in April 1996 to examine past, current and new concepts of time as they relate to physics and cosmology. These proceedings incorporate 34 reviews and contributed papers from the conference. The major reviews include observational properties of the redshift, alternative cosmologies, critical problems in cosmology, alternative viewpoints and problems in gravitation theory and particle physics, and new approaches to mathematical models of time. Professionals and students with an interest in cosmology and the structure of the universe will find that this book raises critical problems and explores challenging alternatives to classical viewpoints.