Time And Matter - Proceedings Of The International Colloquium On The Science Of Time

by Ikaros I Bigi (Editor), Martin Faessler (Editor)

Overview

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 t' Hooft, address both experimental and theoretical issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812566348
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/14/2006
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue     ix
Measuring Time
The Measurement of Time with Atomic Clocks   E. Peik     3
Measuring the Frequency of Light   T. W. Hansch     17
Time and Space Variation of Fundamental Constants: Motivation and Laboratory Search   S. G. Karshenboim     26
Causality & Signal Propagation
Causality and Superluminal Light   G. M. Shore     45
Quantum Fluctuations and Signal Velocity in Superluminal Light Pulse Propagation   L. J. Wang     67
Time and Matter in the Interaction between Gravity and Quantum Fluids: Are there Macroscopic Quantum Transducers between Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves?   R. Y. Chiao   W. J. Fitelson     85
Coherence & Decoherence
Decoherence Unlimited: From Zeno to Classical Motion   E. Joos     103
Coherence and the Clock   L. Stodolsky     117
Decoherence, Chaos and the Second Law   W. H. Zurek     132
Contributed Papers
What Could We Have Been Missing While Pauli's Theorem Was in Force?   E. A. Galapon     133
Simultaneity and the Concept of Particle   E. Dolby     145
CP & T Violation
CP and T Violation in the Kaon System   E. Blucher     161
Time-Reversal Non-Invariance   D.Zavrtanik     176
'Per Aspera ad Astra' - A Short Essay on the Long Quest for CP Violation   I. I. Bigi     185
Macroscopic Time Reversal and the Arrow of Time
The Thermodynamic Arrow: Puzzles & Pseudo-Puzzles   H. Price     209
Arrow of Time from Timeless Quantum Gravity   C. Kiefer     225
The Evolution of the Universe   J. Garcia-Bellido     235
Did Time and Its Arrow have a Beginning?   G. Veneziano     250
The Wormhole Hazard   S. Krasnikov     260
Elementary Particles as Black Holes   G. 'tHooft     270
Contributed Paper
Counter-Example where Cosmic Time Keeps Its Original Role in Quantum Cosmology   E. I. Guendelman   A. B. Kaganovich     271
New Paradigms
String Theory, Space and Time   C. M. Hull     285
Quantized Space and Time   P. Schupp     303
List of Participants     319