Social time

Article Abstract:

New Zealand-based Peter Lynds attacks physics for maintaining at its very foundations what in his assessment is a nonsensical notion of time, namely, time as a succession of precise static instants, thereby echoing Henri Bergson's century-old critique of time's quantification. If time is not a succession of instants, it could mean that a particular society's historical conception of time emerges out of that very society's material practice.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Physicists, Time, Works, Social change

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Introduction: life's (re-)emergences

Article Abstract:

The article discusses the much debated difference and separation between the two terms nature and culture that is a theme for various disciplines. Re-emergences of life in strange forms such as clones, transplants and genetically modified crops, raise questions on whether these life forms are compliant with nature or culture.

Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Surgical Transplants, Genetically modified organisms, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Transplantation, Culture, Civilization, Human cloning, Vitalism, Life (Biology)

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Physical Bergsonism and the worldliness of time

Article Abstract:

The article discusses the re-emergence of Bergson's critique for spatializing concepts of time, in Peter Lynds's paper 'Foundations of Physics Letters'. Lynds attacks modern physics for its concept of time as a succession of precise static instants.

Evaluation, Foundations of Physics Letters (Book)

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