TY - BOOK ID - 8434137 TI - The far horizons of time time and mind in the universe AU - Ransford, H. Chris AU - Paulina Leśna-Szreter AU - Andrew Laister PY - 2015 SN - 3110440288 311044027X 3110441438 PB - De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Physics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Atomic Physics KW - Space and time. KW - Space of more than three dimensions KW - Space-time KW - Space-time continuum KW - Space-times KW - Spacetime KW - Time and space KW - Fourth dimension KW - Infinite KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophy KW - Space sciences KW - Time KW - Beginning KW - Hyperspace KW - Relativity (Physics) KW - Popular science, time, mystery of time, mathematical universe, space-time, quantum, delayed choice, Bell's inequality, wave function, the brain's perception of time, saccades, anthropic principle. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8434137 AB - What is Time? Assuming no prior specialized knowledge by the reader, the book raises specific, hitherto overlooked questions about how time works, such as how and why anyone can be made to be, at the very same instant, simultaneous with events that are actually days apart. It examines abiding issues in the physics of time or at its periphery which still elude a full explanation - such as delayed choice experiments, the brain's perception of time during saccadic masking, and more - and suggests that these phenomena can only exist because they ultimately obey applicable mathematics, thereby agreeing with a modern view that the universe and everything within it, including the mind, are ultimately mathematical structures. It delves into how a number of conundrums, such as the weak Anthropic Principle, could be resolved, and how such resolutions could be tested experimentally. All its various threads converge towards a same new vision of the ultimate essence of time, seen as a side effect from a deeper reality. ER -