Title : Between Time and Eternity - Stengers Prigogine - book
Summary :
An enigma has marked physics since Galileo. Why did this science, from the beginning, choose eternity over the time of becoming? Why did it repeat the most paradoxical of negations, that of the arrow of time, which nevertheless reflects the solidarity of our experience with the world in which we live? The question of time has created a tension between the idea of a world governed by timeless and deterministic laws and human experience, memory of the past, opening to the future. It has also pitted physics against other sciences, and "fundamental" laws against phenomenological descriptions, which reflect the arrow of time. But today, a new coherence is emerging that opens physics to questions of becoming, to the emergence of the new that it had denied. The question of time, one and multiple, articulates our need to construct a more unified conception of the world with the multiplicity of perspectives that the latter demands of us. A renewal of knowledge that allows us to discover a science that creates meaning, freed from the utopia of infinite knowledge, a human work, itself situated between time and eternity.
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- EAN: 9782080812629
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