Time, the familiar stranger

Time: The Familiar Stranger
	Contents
	A Chart and an Itinerary: An Introduction
	1 Shall I be gone long? The Experience and Idea of Time
		The Discovery of Time: Once over Lightly
		Language: A Weapon against Passing
		How to Live with the Knowledge of Time: Religions
		Ideas about Time: Themes and Variations
	2 For ever and a day: The Reckoning of Time
		The Stuff that Clocks are Made Of
		Trillions of Cambridge Surprise Majors: The Scientific Measurement of Time
		When Is Easter and Who Are You? Calendars and Chronologies
		Cosmic Birth and Death Judged in Terms of Human Time
	3 To whom there belong? The Times of Life, Mind, and Society
		Biotemporality: The Cyclic Order of Life
		Biotemporality: The Aging Order of Life
		The Origins of Life and of Biotemporality
		Nootemporality: The Brain’s Way of Minding the Body
		Sociotemporality: The Socialization and Collective Evaluation of Time
	4 Ask the stone to say: Time in the World of Matter
		The Atemporal Kingdom of Light: Special Relativity Theory, the Physics of the Fastest Signals
		The Prototemporal World of Particles: Quantum Theory, the Science of Ordered Randomness
		Cosmic Time: General Relativity Theory, the Physics of the Universe
		Entropy and Time
		What the Stone Cannot Say about Time: Reflections on Time and Number
	5 Ask my song: Man the Measure and Measurer of Time
		Descent and Ascent: The Fable of Two Women
		The Time-Compact Globe
		Time at the Anthill Threshold: A Turbulent Act of Creation
	From the Diaries of a Timesmith: The Memory of a Plan That Became This Book
	Appendix 1: Time Dilation
	Appendix 2: The Temporality of the Initial State of the Universe
	Glossary
	A Bibliographic Sampler, or Pioneers Can Have No Maps
	Subject and Name Index
	Illustrations
		1 A Hindu Image of Eternity
		2 A Greek Image of Day and Night
		3 Pythagoras: Reality Is the Timeless Rule of Number
		4 Plato’s Geometrization of Nature: Time Is a Mirage
		5 Kepler’s Break with the Aristotelian Belief that the Heavens were Perfect
		6 White Marble Sundial, Third Century B.C.
		7 Chinese Incense Clock, Early Fourteenth Century
		8 Su Sung’s Clock Tower, Built in 1090
		9 Christian Huygens’ Improvement on the Isochrony of the Pendulum
		10 “To knowe the Spring of the Dawying”: A Plenispheric Astrolabe
		11 The Hands of the Celestial Clock
		12 A Printed Astrolabe: Pages from the Nautical Almanac for 1986, 68-69
		13 United States Primary Standard Atomic Clock
		14 The Strasbourg Astronomical Clock, 82-83
		15 September 1986 in the Mayan Calendar
		16 A Calendar of Numbers, Gods and Burdens of Time 88-89
		17 P’an Ku Chiseling the Stars and Planets from the Boulders of Primeval Chaos
		18 What Is Reality? Help from the Tick via Jakob Johann baron von Uexküll
		19 Reckoning the Solar Day by Biological Clocks in Plants
		20 Entrainment of an Infant’s Circadian Rhythm
		21 Free-Running Circadian Rhythms in an Isolated Human Subject
		22 Tidal Variations
		23 Return of the Native: Biological Clocks and Society
		24 Everyday Chronopharmacology
		25 The Spectrum of Biological Cycles
		26 Hierarchical Organization of the Primate Brain
		27 The Sound of an Organ Pipe
		28 Edison’s Patent for the Record Player
		29 Pen Recording from an Opera 164-165
		30 Soundtrack of a Single Frame from a Film that shows an Orchestra of 107 Instruments Playing Ravel’s “Bolero” 166-67
		31 Courtship Signals of a Species of Grasshopper
		32 Collective Present of Members of Species Sharing Living Quarters
		33 A Book of Hours: The Rhythm of Eternity 194-195
		34 Paring off the Social Present: The Original London—Bath Mail Coach of 1784
		35 Present Acts Have Long-Term Consequences: The Dame and the Devil
		36 The Call of the Drummer 218-219
		37 The Formula upon which the Atomic and Nuclear Bombs Are Based 226-227
		38 Probability in Quantum Theory: The Perfect Report from an Unevolved World
		39 Geometrical Bookkeeping in a 2-p Plane of Motion that Takes Place along a 1-D Line 260-261
		40 Actual Size of the Universe at and Soon after the Instant of Creation
		41 Growth and Decay Processes in the Thermodynamics of the Universe
		42 The Conflict between the Entropy-Decreasing and Entropy-Increasing Aspects of the Life Process
		43 The Shaker Experience of Timelessness
		44 Mosaic of the “Enthusiasm of Nations” 304-305
		45 The Loss of Distinct Identities
		46 Islamic Prayer Watch, a Symbol of the Time-Compact Globe 338-339
		47 The Challenge of Human Time: The Stage and the Actors 346-347
		48 Geometrical Representation of the Lorentz Transformations, after Brehme
		49 Geometrical Representations of Motional Contractions of Length
		50 Geometrical Representations of Motional Time Dilations