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1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : illustrations
Why does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. In this book, Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the world, through some of the newest.
A longish introduction : the problem of change -- Zeno's paradoxes -- Zeno's arrow paradox -- The shape of space I : topology -- Beyond the third dimension -- Why three dimensions? -- The shape of space II : curved space? -- Looking for geometry -- What is space? -- Time -- Time and Tralfamadore -- Time travel -- Why can't I stop my younger self from time traveling? -- Spacetime and the theory of relativity -- Time in relativity -- Hands and mirrors -- Identity -- Quarticles -- Where Next?
Includes bibliographical references and index.