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The Ways People and Physicists Think About Time
13/09/2025 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
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The Ways People and Physicists Think About Time.
Part 1: How People Think About Time
Biological and Psychological Time:
Internal clocks (circadian rhythms)
Psychological state
Tracking Time:
Calendrical Time
Tick Tock Time
Historical Time:
Epochs and Eras
Part 2: How Physicists Think About Time
Objective, measurable, and mathematical concepts of time
Classical Physics and Absolute Time:
Newton’s Clockwork Universe
The Arrow of Time:
Thermodynamic arrow (entropy)
The cosmological arrow
The psychological arrow (our memory of the past).
Modern Physics and Relativistic Time:
Spacetime
Time Dilation
Quantum Physics and the End of Time?
Quantum mechanics and general relativity disagree about time.
Timeless Universe?
Emergent Time?