The Origins of Time

M. Heller

A chapter in The Study of Time IV, 1981, pp 90-93 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 0. The fundamental axiom of science and of everyday experience asserts that everything has its history. Also, the universe as a whole turns out to be a “historical being”; contemporary cosmology attempts at reconstructing the cosmic history. “One of the greatest discoveries of science is that the universe also changes with time, and like living systems may well have a kind of birth and death also.” (Davies, 1978, p. 74). But why has the universe its history? This apparently trivial question opens a fascinating research field for theoretical physics. Our attempt to answer this question touches an old philosophical issue—the problem of the origins of time.

Keywords: Compact Manifold; Contemporary Physic; Global Time; Timelike Curve; Initial Singularity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5947-3_7

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