过程和时间 过程和时间
1Collective Intelligence Laboratory, McMaster University, 255 Townline Rd. E., Cayuga, ON N0A 1E0, Canada.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
|May 27, 2023
概括
物理学可能无法最终证明时间.
科学领域:
- 物理学哲学 物理学的哲学
- 时间的形而上学.
背景情况:
- 时间的存在在物理学中有争议,有些人认为它是一种幻觉.
- 反对时间存在的标准论据往往包含隐藏的假设.
- 物理学是关于时间的基本性质的不可知论.
研究的目的:
- 挑战物理学驳斥时间存在的观念.
- 探索怀特黑德的过程哲学作为理解时间的框架.
- 展示过程观如何支持变化和变化的现实.
主要方法:
- 批评标准物理学对时间的论证.
- 应用阿尔弗雷德·北·怀特黑德的过程哲学.
- 概念分析时间作为现实的一个基本方面.
主要成果:
- 物理学并没有本质上否认时间的存在.
- 怀特黑德的过程观将时间视为现实生成的基础.
- 尺度时空是从过程生成的实体之间的关系中产生的.
结论:
- 时间和变化的感知得到了过程哲学的支持.
- 时间的基本性质可能是一个在当前物理学中无法证明的假设.
- 这种观点与现有的物理理论一致,并允许实验性探索.
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