Time & matter : Venice, Italy, 11-17 August 2002 : proceedings of the International Colloquium on the Science of Time / editors Ikaros I. Bigi, Martin Faessler.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bigi, I. I.

Faessler, Martin.

Conference Name:

International Colloquium on the Science of Time (2002 : Venice, Italy)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time--Congresses.

Space and time.

Matter--Congresses.

Matter.

Quantum field theory--Congresses.

Quantum field theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Time and matter

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Time and matter are the most fundamental concepts in physics and in any science-based description of the world around us. Quantum theory has, however, revealed many novel insights into these concepts in non-relativistic, relativistic and cosmological contexts. The implications of these novel perspectives have been realized and, in particular, probed experimentally only recently. In the papers in this proceedings, these issues are discussed in a truly interdisciplinary fashion from philosophical and historical perspectives. The leading contributors, including Nobel laureates T W Hänsch and G

Contents:

CONTENTS ; Prologue ; Section I: Measuring Time ; The Measurement of Time with Atomic Clocks ; Measuring the Frequency of Light ; Time and Space Variation of Fundamental Constants: Motivation and Laboratory Search ; Section II: Causality & Signal Propagation

Causality and Superluminal Light Quantum Fluctuations and Signal Velocity in Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation ; Time and Matter in the Interaction between Gravity and Quantum Fluids: Are there Macroscopic Quantum Transducers between Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves?

Section III: Coherence & Decoherence Decoherence Unlimited: From Zeno to Classical Motion ; Coherence and the Clock ; Decoherence, Chaos and the Second Law; What Could We Have Been Missing While Pauli's Theorem Was in Force? ; Simultaneity and the Concept of 'Particle' ; Section IV: CP & T Violation

CP and T Violation in the Kaon System Time-Reversal Non-Invariance ; 'Per Aspera ad Astra' - A Short Essay on the Long Quest for CP Violation ; Section V: Macroscopic Time Reversal and the Arrow of Time ; The Thermodynamic Arrow: Puzzles & Pseudo-Puzzles

Arrow of Time from Timeless Quantum Gravity The Evolution of the Universe ; Did Time and Its Arrow have a Beginning? ; The Wormhole Hazard ; Elementary Particles as Black Holes ; Counter-Example where Cosmic Time Keeps Its Original Role in Quantum Cosmology ; Section VI: New Paradigms

String Theory, Space and Time

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611919443

9781281919441

1281919446

9789812774392

9812774394

OCLC:

842972644