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Please note that you can order the essays by:
Things Happen by Jim George Snowdon
19 posts • Dec. 4, 2008 @ 09:02 GMT
Time Is Local by Sandra E. Baron
20 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 11:56 GMT
Time: the view from ordinary shoulders by Peter Alexander Cunningham
1 post • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:05 GMT
Possible Simultaneous Times by Florina Manuela Pirvulescu
58 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
The Foundation of Physics and the Explanation of Time by Gerry L. Klein
4 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
Revolution in the Understanding of Space-Time: A Project by Buck Field
28 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in Capturing the Nature of Time. by Dirk Vertigan
7 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
Quantum Measurement as an Arrow of Time by C. Vinson
3 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
Time by Mar Vas
3 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:04 GMT
Speculation Regarding a Limited Role in the Universe for (Space-)Time by Jud Fink
5 posts • Dec. 3, 2008 @ 10:03 GMT
The Riddle of Time: R = t by L Riofrio
11 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:46 GMT
The Case for Absolute Time by Randall B Floit
5 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:45 GMT
The Production of Time by Adam Daniel Helfer
8 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:43 GMT
The rediscovery of time through its disappearance by Alexis de Saint-Ours
9 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:41 GMT
What Is Time? by Gregory Keaton
9 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:40 GMT
Weakening Gravity's Grip on the Arrow of Time by Maulik Parikh
4 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:36 GMT
Space does not exist, so time can. by Fotini Markopoulou
30 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:34 GMT
Time is not the problem. by Olaf Dreyer
6 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:34 GMT
Smaller than Planck time by Guenter Hauser
2 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:31 GMT
The physical nature of time by Sherman Loran Jenkins
7 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:27 GMT
Many Times by Steven Weinstein
5 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 14:23 GMT
The Nature of Time is Change by Matthew Joseph Waldman
4 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 12:45 GMT
Time as a Universal Scaling Principle by Lawrence B. Crowell
24 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 10:56 GMT
Let's benefit from special mathematics for elapsed time by Eckard Blumschein
61 posts • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 10:41 GMT
Your Time and My Time and Time by Raghavendra Devaraya Prabhu
1 post • Dec. 2, 2008 @ 08:45 GMT
Deep quantum time by David Ritz Finkelstein
5 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 17:02 GMT
Complex Time, Causality and the Anthropic Principal by James G Stanfield
18 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 16:54 GMT
Gravity: The Power Source of Entropic Time by Timothy E Faucett
5 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 16:54 GMT
The Absoluteness of Time by James A. Putnam
6 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:21 GMT
Time, TOEs, and UltraStructuralism by Dean Rickles
7 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:21 GMT
Is the notion of time really fundamental? by Florian Girelli
5 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:21 GMT
On The Flow of Time by George F R Ellis
263 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:20 GMT
The Nature of Time by Julian Barbour
75 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 14:20 GMT
Time and the Infinity Complex by Nicholas Dombrovskis
3 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 13:24 GMT
The Nature of Time: Turning the Kaleidoscope by Ryan Sloan Westafer
13 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:23 GMT
Condensed matter lessons about the origin of time by Gil Jannes
30 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:22 GMT
``What is (the) time?'' ``Get a clock, it will tell you!'' by Robert C Helling
1 post • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:18 GMT
Can we change the past by forgetting? by Saibal Mitra
2 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:18 GMT
Time. On. Essay. An. by Julian Moore
11 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:17 GMT
Relational Resolution of Time needs Many Worlds Interpretation with Small Probability Cutoff by Sascha Vongehr
2 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 11:03 GMT
Time as a product of motion by peter wamai wanjohi
3 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:55 GMT
On the Non-Existence of Time by James E Tyson
6 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:55 GMT
Measurement processes and cosmological emergence by Marni Dee Sheppeard
8 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:55 GMT
Time and Interpretation by Lambru Scoromide
2 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
Time and Life: Testing a Tilt in the Arrow of Time by C. K. Raju
13 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
Time and Reality of Worldtubes by Vesselin Petkov
23 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
Temporal Platonic Metaphysics by Aleksandar Mikovic
7 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:54 GMT
Nature's Time Scale by Neil G. McCormick
1 post • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
The progression of time as a cosmological process by Johan Masreliez
6 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
Time According to dano by Daniel Joseph Kunau
3 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
The Drumming of Space-Time by Jean IBAR
5 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
Time and Quantum - Musings about the Quantized Nature of Becoming by Chi Ming Hung
20 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
Electron time, mass and zitter by David Hestenes
24 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
Time: The Anima of Being by William C Hagen
2 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:53 GMT
Black Holes and Antimatter as the Convergence of Times by Joshua D Cuppett
5 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
Whither Time's Arrow? by Gavin E Crooks
13 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
There ain't nothing wrong with Time by Anders Bengtsson
7 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
The Epiontic Principle, Time and the Laws of Physics by Luigi Acerbi
5 posts • Dec. 1, 2008 @ 10:52 GMT
Time, Space and Matter in the Relational Blockworld: A New Approach to the Problems of Time by Mark Stuckey
23 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 12:46 GMT
The Theory of Time, Space and Gravitation by Robert D. Sadykov
11 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
Reality - an emerging representation of the world by Martin A. Green
3 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
A Derivation of the Speed of Light Postulate by Armin Nikkhah Shirazi
14 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
A Practical Experiment to Observe the Direction of Time. by Kenneth M. Sasaki.
6 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
Morphogenesis and dynamics of quantum state by Peter Leifer
3 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:31 GMT
A Wild Guess On Time by Martin Franz Traub
1 post • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:30 GMT
No Time for Quarks! by Franklin Potter
2 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:30 GMT
One time is not enough by Petr Frish
9 posts • Nov. 28, 2008 @ 09:30 GMT
Flowing with a Frozen River by Cristinel Stoica
122 posts • Nov. 26, 2008 @ 11:19 GMT
Time and Causality by William R. Wharton
11 posts • Nov. 26, 2008 @ 11:18 GMT
The Heuristic Significance of the Principle of General Relativity on the Nature of Time by Chris J Clyde
1 post • Nov. 25, 2008 @ 13:19 GMT
The Garden of Forking Paths: Time as an Expanding Labyrinth by Paul Halpern
17 posts • Nov. 25, 2008 @ 10:00 GMT
What if Time Really Exists? by Sean Carroll
50 posts • Nov. 24, 2008 @ 09:32 GMT
About Time by Hsiung Chia Tze
8 posts • Nov. 24, 2008 @ 09:32 GMT
Nature of Time in Physical Theories by Suresh V Kamath
4 posts • Nov. 24, 2008 @ 09:07 GMT
Testing Two-Dimensional Time by Michael Alekseevich Popov
5 posts • Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:18 GMT
Absolutely -The Nature of Time and Beyond? by Stephen J Abrahams
9 posts • Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:17 GMT
Time: Arrow or Boomerang? by Kenneth Bruce Lucas
1 post • Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:17 GMT
Lessons from the Block Universe by Ken Wharton
39 posts • Nov. 21, 2008 @ 10:16 GMT
On the comprehension of time in continuum mechanics by Alexandre Paradis
1 post • Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
TIME PARADOXES by JOSE J CURIEL
5 posts • Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
Is there a physical mechanism responsible for what we perceive as time? by Chris Kennedy
51 posts • Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
Emergent Time from Non-Associative Quantum Theory by Jens Koeplinger
20 posts • Nov. 19, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
Time Traveling by Simuverses by Venerando Solis Barrado
7 posts • Nov. 17, 2008 @ 12:04 GMT
Nature Of Time by Iacob Suteu
5 posts • Nov. 17, 2008 @ 12:04 GMT
A Coherent Space-Time Model Derived From Principles of Electric Current by Jerome Cantor
1 post • Nov. 17, 2008 @ 12:04 GMT
About the Nature of Time by Pierre Sabatier
1 post • Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:30 GMT
What Makes Time Special by Craig Adam Callender
17 posts • Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:30 GMT
From time to timescape -- Einstein's unfinished revolution by David L. Wiltshire
36 posts • Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:29 GMT
The Nature of Time: from a Timeless Hamiltonian Framework to Clock Time of Metrology by Enrico Prati
14 posts • Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:29 GMT
Informational Time by Gunn Alex Quznetsov
22 posts • Nov. 14, 2008 @ 15:29 GMT
Granular geometry of space-time as a result of Newtonian investgation strategy by Yuri Rylov
2 posts • Nov. 13, 2008 @ 08:59 GMT
On the Nature of Time - Or Why Does Nature Abhor Deadlocks? by Christine Cordula Dantas
13 posts • Nov. 13, 2008 @ 08:59 GMT
Fundamental Mechanics by Keith Clemens
1 post • Nov. 13, 2008 @ 08:59 GMT
An Overview of the Nature of Time by Brian Fraser
20 posts • Nov. 10, 2008 @ 14:45 GMT
Clock boundary principle with respect to the role of time in laws of physics and its application to special relativity by Srdjan Mijatovic
1 post • Nov. 10, 2008 @ 14:45 GMT
daerengD Time Paradigm by Brian Beverly
91 posts • Nov. 6, 2008 @ 11:14 GMT
Constants of Nature, Dynamics of Time by Michael A. Sherbon
17 posts • Nov. 6, 2008 @ 11:14 GMT
Quantum Pseudokinematics by Myke Stanbridge
20 posts • Nov. 5, 2008 @ 11:03 GMT
Time Travel using hole teleportation by Constantin Zaharia Leshan
4 posts • Nov. 5, 2008 @ 10:43 GMT
Square Wheels Or Real Dynamics? by François Xavier Le Rouge
18 posts • Nov. 4, 2008 @ 12:59 GMT
The gravitation and thermodynamics by Alexander Fedorovich Silin
7 posts • Nov. 3, 2008 @ 10:38 GMT
Philosophical Quest for the Reality of Time by Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
4 posts • Nov. 3, 2008 @ 10:38 GMT
Making Time With Pretty Girls and Hot Stoves by Don Limuti
10 posts • Nov. 3, 2008 @ 10:38 GMT
Stochastic Time and Temporal Non-locality by Toru Ohira
27 posts • Oct. 30, 2008 @ 10:34 GMT
The direction of time in quantum field theory by Peter Morgan
33 posts • Oct. 27, 2008 @ 09:12 GMT
This Time - What a Strange Turn of Events by Philip Gibbs
41 posts • Oct. 21, 2008 @ 09:19 GMT
Why Does Time “Flow” but Space Is? Answers in Evolution and Cognition by Harry E. Foundalis
2 posts • Oct. 21, 2008 @ 09:19 GMT
Instants, inertia and quantum motion by Shan Gao
12 posts • Oct. 14, 2008 @ 10:42 GMT
Time counts. by Thomas Howard Ray
29 posts • Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
Nature of Time by Nainan K Varghese
1 post • Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
Some Thoughts on Time by Matthew P. Kolasinski
18 posts • Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
On the global existence of time by Ettore Minguzzi
8 posts • Oct. 13, 2008 @ 09:42 GMT
Relations between Space-time, Gravity and Consciousness by Amrit Srecko Sorli
10 posts • Oct. 10, 2008 @ 11:30 GMT
A Mystic Dream of Four by Douglas Bundy
220 posts • Oct. 10, 2008 @ 11:30 GMT
Does time exist in quantum gravity? by Claus Kiefer
32 posts • Oct. 6, 2008 @ 11:38 GMT
The Nature of Time by Christopher Randall Brown
6 posts • Oct. 6, 2008 @ 11:37 GMT
About the Nature of Time by Matti Juhani Pitkänen
16 posts • Oct. 2, 2008 @ 09:21 GMT
The Physical Nature Of Time by Paul N Butler
50 posts • Sep. 30, 2008 @ 08:36 GMT
Block time: Why many physicists still don't accept it? by Hrvoje Nikolic
49 posts • Sep. 24, 2008 @ 13:06 GMT
Mysteries of the Universe- a perspective by Narendra Nath
69 posts • Sep. 24, 2008 @ 11:59 GMT
The Here-and-Now by Clinton Kyle Miller
48 posts • Sep. 23, 2008 @ 13:33 GMT
On the nature of Time by Malcolm Macleod
1 post • Sep. 17, 2008 @ 13:39 GMT
Time in 3D by Harrison Saunders
2 posts • Sep. 17, 2008 @ 13:35 GMT
Time, Consciousness, and the Subjective Universe by Daegene Song
9 posts • Sep. 10, 2008 @ 09:41 GMT
On the Origin of Time by Rowan GRIGG
6 posts • Sep. 10, 2008 @ 09:36 GMT
Free will, undecidability, and the problem of time in quantum gravity by Rodolfo Gambini
14 posts • Sep. 10, 2008 @ 09:33 GMT
E8 Time by Frank Dodd Smith
4 posts • Sep. 5, 2008 @ 11:41 GMT
Density Operators and Time by Carl A Brannen
27 posts • Sep. 2, 2008 @ 14:43 GMT
Motivation for a Biophysical Metamathematics via Multiply Connected Phase Space by Robert C Arnold
2 posts • Aug. 27, 2008 @ 17:40 GMT
Ultimate Reality and Nonmaterial Origin Of Universe by Prem Nath Tiwari
68 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
Time for a Change - The Instantaneous, Present and the Existence of Time by Peter Lynds
79 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
Explaining Time by John Brodix Merryman
26 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
Time as an Emergent Phenomenon: Traveling Back to the Heroic Age of Physics by Elliot McGucken
236 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT
"Forget time" by Carlo Rovelli
157 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT
Nature of Time by John Daniel Barrett
2 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT
Time Complementarity in the Inflaton Spacetime Model by Richard P Dolan
3 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT
Nature of time by Ralf Hofmann
5 posts • Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:36 GMT