Time's Arrow and Archimedes Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time is a 1996 book by Huw Price, on the physics and philosophy of the arrow of time...
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The arrow of time, also called time's arrow, is the concept positing the "one-way direction" or "asymmetry" of time. It was developed in 1927 by the British...
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December 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2011. Price, Huw (1996). Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511798-1. Retrieved...
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interpretation – Interpretation of quantum mechanics Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point – Book about retrocausality and philosophical issues in quantum mechanics...
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or bad." Facts and the Function of Truth (Blackwell, 1988) Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time (Oxford University...
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Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory". Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time. OUP USA. pp. 221–222. ISBN 978-0195117981...
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ISBN 978-0-486-64038-9. Price, Huw (1996). Time's arrow and Archimedes' point: new directions for the physics of time. New York Oxford: Oxford university press...
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Zeno's paradoxes (redirect from Zeno's arrow)
instant, and contends that all that is required for motion is that the arrow be at one point at one time, at another point another time, and at appropriate...
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Archimedes is purported to have invented a large scale solar furnace, sometimes described as a heat ray, and used it to burn attacking Roman ships during...
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Philosophy of physics (redirect from Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics)
Quantum Philosophy. Princeton Univ. Press. Huw Price, 1996. Time's Arrow and Archimedes's Point. Oxford Univ. Press. Lawrence Sklar, 1992. Philosophy of...
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launch his arrow into the forest. While retrieving the arrow, Arthur meets Merlin, an elderly wizard who lives with his talking pet owl Archimedes. Merlin...
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who proposed the model in the 1960s. Time's arrow & Archimedes' point: new directions for the physics of time, Huw Price, Oxford University Press US...
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Names of large numbers (section Other named large numbers used in mathematics, physics and chemistry)
in which Archimedes gave a system for naming large numbers. To do this, he called the numbers up to a myriad myriad (108) "first numbers" and called 108...
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Causality (physics) (category Time)
362. ISSN 0556-2821. Price, Huw (1997). Time's arrow & Archimedes' point: new directions for the physics of time. Oxford paperbacks (1. issued as an Oxford...
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has found half of Archimedes' Dial, an Antikythera mechanism built by the ancient Syracusan mathematician Archimedes which reveals time fissures, thereby...
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floating-point format. Mathematics: approximately 7.76 × 10206,544 cattle in the smallest herd which satisfies the conditions of Archimedes's cattle problem...
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Directed-energy weapon (redirect from Point-defense laser cannon)
to a legend, Archimedes created a mirror with an adjustable focal length (or more likely, a series of mirrors focused on a common point) to focus sunlight...
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Three-dimensional space (redirect from Width, length, and depth)
because every point in space can be described by a linear combination of three independent vectors. A vector can be pictured as an arrow. The vector's...
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Wheeler–Feynman absorber theory (redirect from Wheeler–Feynman time-symmetric theory)
151716. ISSN 0066-4146. Price, Huw (1997). Time's arrow & Archimedes' point: new directions for the physics of time. Oxford paperbacks (1. issued as an Oxford...
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Eratosthenes (redirect from Arrow toss the knees)
made several important contributions to mathematics and science, and was a friend of Archimedes. Around 255 BC, he invented the armillary sphere. In...
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November 2022, Rocket Lab cut the ribbon on an engine test facility for the Archimedes engine at NASA's Stennis Space Center. In March 2020, the company announced...
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List of mythological objects (section Bow and arrows)
(Egyptian mythology) Father Time's hourglass, carrying an hourglass representing time's constant movement. Many believe that Father Time, like the Grim Reaper...
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Longitude (redirect from Zero Point of Longitude)
Use and Criticism of his Work from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Archimedes. Vol. 23. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 95-119. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2788-7_4...
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Jet Set Willy (category BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games)
disappearing from The Chapel screen, and other screens triggering a game over. This was caused by an error in the path of an arrow in The Attic, resulting in the...
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MythBusters (2006 season) (category Cultural depictions of Archimedes)
This episode, referred to as the "MythBusters Mailbag Special: The Great Archimedes Burn-Off" from within the episode itself, saw a retest of the Ancient...
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phrase or common theme. Ice Age, Homelands, and Alliances were retroactively declared a block at some point, despite Homelands not being connected to the...
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Mastermind (board game) (section Gameplay and rules)
Retrieved 7 July 2014. "Wolfram". Retrieved 9 July 2012. "Archimedes". Retrieved 7 October 2012. "Bulls and Cows & co". Retrieved 7 July 2012. Knuth, Donald (1976–1977)...
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Exponentiation (section Identities and properties)
(seventh), and "zenzizenzizenzic" (eighth). "Biquadrate" has been used to refer to the fourth power as well. In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes proved the...
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Timeline of historic inventions (category Harv and Sfn no-target errors)
Cave in South Africa by Homo sapiens: Compound adhesives Arrows and other evidence of bow-and-arrow technology Sewing needle (implying thread of some kind)...
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Force (section Rotation and torque)
force in the study of stationary and moving objects and simple machines, but thinkers such as Aristotle and Archimedes retained fundamental errors in understanding...
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