Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aps..apro12011k&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
A new theory of time is suggested. It represents a new viewpoint that arose from the critical analysis of the foundations of physics and philosophy. The principal idea leading to the theory is that the notion of movement presents the key to understanding of the essence of time. The theory is formed by the following statements. (1) Movement is change in general. (2) A process is a sequence of transitions of states into other states. (3) The origin and the end of the process the informational characteristics of a process - determine the direction and the duration of the process; a direction and a duration characterize a process. (4) The duration of the process is the sum of the duration of the individual transitions. (5) The process is called a clock-process if: a) it is a stable one and it does not interact with the surroundings; b) it is a universal measure of other processes; c) the duration of the process is described by the expression Tn = nτ, n = 0, 1, … where τ = const is the duration of every individual transition. (6) The device realizing the clock-process and giving the information Tn to each arbitrary observer is called a clock. (7) A clock is a human creation and is the inalienable part of the reference system. These statements lead to the following formulation of the essence of time: (i) a time is not a physical or geometric property or feature of natural objects and phenomena; hence, in this sense, a time does not exist; (ii) a time exists in the other sense: the time Tn defined by a clock is the form of the information characterizing the physical process in a clock; this form presents the universal informational basis for ordering of information about processes in the world; (iii) the Tn is the human-created informational parameter of the reference system. Consequence: mathematical operations on physical quantities with the time is allowed by the laws of logic because the "physical objects + reference system" is a unitary system.
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