What is Time? -- Thoughts of a Physicist
History and Philosophy of Physics
2022-03-22 v2 Popular Physics
Abstract
Discussion of some aspects of the concept of time for a general audience: nature of time, A- and B-series, time in physics, the "now", measurement of time, definition of time units, time's arrow, relativity of time, relativity of simultaneity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.09415,
title = {What is Time? -- Thoughts of a Physicist},
author = {Gernot Münster},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09415},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
12 pages, 4 figures, typo corrected. Contribution to the "Symposium on Time" of the EPF, Brussels, April 2022. Deutsche Version erh\"altlich unter https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.TP/~munsteg/22Zeit.pdf