Physics and the Ultimate Significance of Time: Bohm, Prigogine and Process Philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press | ISBN: 088706115X | edition 1986 | CHM | 322 pages | 1,03 mb
The notion that physics is in some fundamental sense timeless has been widely accepted. Of course, time in the sense of a measured interval (symbolized by t) occurs in physical formulae. But time as we experience it, with its incessant becoming, its irreversibility, and its absolute distinctions between past, present, and future, is said to be irrelevant to the thought world of physics. Some thinkers go so far as to claim that this absence proves that time in this sense is an illusion.
In any case, insofar as the timelessness of physics is accepted, and insofar as physics is taken to be the fundamental natural science, an unbridgeable chasm seems to exist between the world of the natural sciences and the world of the humanitiesor, simply, the world of complete human experience with all its richness and complexity, all its hopes and fears. For in the latter nothing is more fundamental than the reality of temporal process. It is presupposed by our every activity, our every passion.
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