Does branching explain flow of time or the other way around?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-014-0638-4?sa_campaign=email/event/articleAuthor/onlineFirst" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-014-0638-4?sa_campaign=email/event/articleAuthor/onlineFirst</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0638-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11229-014-0638-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does branching explain flow of time or the other way around?

Original language description

The article discusses the relation between two intuitive properties of time, namely its flow and branching. Both properties are introduced first in an informal way and compared. The conclusion of this informal analysis is that the two properties do not entail each other nor are they in contradiction. In order to verify this, we briefly introduced the branching temporal structures called branching space-time, branching continuation and their versions Minkowski branching structure and branching time withInstants. Two possible ways how to formalize flow of time are given, one based on the definition of flow of time from temporal logics and the other based on relativistic physics. The latter is used to define flow of time with the use of linearly orderedpoints on worldines while respecting the ontological definiteness given by the difference of the past and the future. This is formalized in each of the branching models and it is concluded by comparing the resulting properties that branch

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Synthese

ISSN

0039-7857

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

192

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

2273-2292

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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