Fractal time : why a watched kettle never boils / Susie Vrobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vrobel, Susie.

Series:

Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; v. 14.

Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life science ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time perception.

Space and time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the notion of fractal time, starting from scratch with a philosophical and perceptual puzzle. How subjective duration varies, depending on the way we embed current content into contexts, is explained. The complexity of our temporal perspective depends on the number of nestings performed, i.e. on the number of contexts taken into account. This temporal contextualization is described against the background of the notion of fractal time. Our temporal interface, the Now, is portrayed as a fractal structure which arises from the distribution o

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 When Time Slows Down: Subjective Duration; Chapter 2 The Fractal Structure of the Now: Time's Length, Depth and Density; Chapter 3 Fractal Temporal Perspectives: Corrective Distortions; Chapter 4 The View from Within: Extended Boundaries; Chapter 5 Contextualization: Embedded Observer-Participants; Chapter 6 Temporal Binding: Synchronizing Perceptions; Chapter 7 Nesting vs Global and Local Perspectives; Chapter 8 Duration: Distributing Content and Context; Chapter 9 Modifying Duration I: Nesting and De-Nesting

Chapter 10 Modifying Duration II: Time CondensationChapter 11 Defining Boundaries: Why is it Always Now?; Chapter 12 Outlook: Here Be Dragons; Appendix A Fractal Dimensions; Appendix B Using the Box-Counting Method to Determine the Fractal Dimension of the Koch Curve; Appendix C Even After 25 Years, Fractal Spacetime is Still Odd; Appendix D The Theory of Scale Relativity and Fractal Space-Time; Appendix E A Very Concise Summary of the Main Ideas of E-Infinity Cantorian Spacetime Theory; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical and index.

ISBN:

9786613148360

9781283148368

1283148366

9789814295987

9814295981

OCLC:

738434105