The
famous "Flat
Earth"
woodcut
originates with Flammarion's
1888
L'atmosphère:
météorologie populaire (p.
163). Artist Unknown.
Time
Sciences
Next
to the spiritual, political and astronomical
considerations there are more considerations
of time. There are historical notions,
chronobiological notions,
psychological-mental health paradigms,
sociological ideas and investigations,
philosophers and philosophies dealing with
the concept and more approaches from the
diverse departments of science. The Order of
Time endeavored to collect articles from
other scientists and to present and preserve
them as a whole on this site. It is a growing
collection presenting an image of a general
scientific concern with this essential
subject of survey. Read of other sciences and
offer your own science!
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To
the subject of time numerous sciences have
contributed with all kinds of investigations and
conclusions. From this page one can surf to
investigate these different subjects. There are
only a few examples kept at this site as there
are many more internet pages and time-sciences
not listed here that are kept by other
webmasters. For the latter ones is offered
the
time-directory of the Linking
Library,
the humanities internet directory of The Order
of Time. Anyone missing his own internet
contribution at these pages can link it
directly online up from the Linking Library
guestpage
to
be listed in the timedirectory.
See
also under politics
and spirituality
and timeoddities
of this site for more idealistic articles
dealing with the psychology of time.
Go
to Quotes
on Time
to read what the great minds of humanity have
said about the subject.
N.B.:
Zie onder Tijdwetenschappen
voor
meer artikelen in het Nederlands.
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Psychology
Mental
Health and the
Timesystem
by:
Drs.
R.P.B.A.
Meijer.
A
report from 1991 to P. Vroon, Professor in
Experimental Psychology, about the timesystem.
This report formed the basis for the dutch book
'De
Spiegel van de
Tijd'
and the building of this website. It was also
presented at the 'International Conference on
Health and Spirituality' at Poona, India sept
1992.
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Horology
Impatient
Pendulum
by
D. H. (Long Now
Foundation):
Some thoughts about the reality of modern
timing: the author complains of having lost his
bearings with the traditional order and dreams
of a clock that defines the Now connecting the
motions of celestial bodies to mundane
calendars.
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Social
Science
Cultural
Studies as Geisteswissenschaften? Time,
Objectivity, and the Future of Social
Science
by R. E. L. This article discusses the
importance of the cultural studies as a
discipline of the personalistic interst and the
historical aspect of time necessary as a
counterweigth to the impersonalistic and
non-historical view of time of the natural
sciences. It urges to understand the social
sciences as equally objective and of
life-important relevance to our kowledge of the
past and control over the future.
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Sociology
Times
of our
Lives:
A
sociological exploration on the subject of Time
with the thesis that most of the times of our
lives have a cyclical quality.This two-part
lengthy article takes the reader just about
everywhere, from circadian rhythms to the
implications of historical ignorance. Taken from
Professor M. C. K.'s "A Sociological Tour
Through Cyberspace" Department of Sociology
& Anthropology, Trinity
University,Texas.
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Law
Cybertime,
Cyberspace and
Cyberlaw
by M.E.K.: "Cybertime does not remove or replace
clocktime; yet it too may place a novel set of
interactions with time on top of a temporal
model that we assume is part of the fixed
natural order, rather than a changeable
culture." par
26.
This article links the concept of time to the
concept of law and proposes a serious concern
about the possible consequences of
cybertime.
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Physics
Time.(by:
G. J. W. Imperial College of Science and
Technology).This article stresses the importance
of observer dependent timing as a consequence of
the modern revision of the concept of time.
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Physics
A
Walk Through
Time
- This article describes the history of
time-keeping from the perspective of arriving at
a reliable clock. By NIST ,
National
Institute of Standards and Technology, the
keepers of atomic
time.
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Philosophy
An
Integral Theory of
Consciousness
by K. W. A renown
consciousness-researcher explains on the
different sciences involved in the concept of
consciousness and its multi-dimensionality.
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Philosophy
The
Spectrum of consciousness: Integral psychology
and the Perennial
Philosophy.
Chapter 1 from: The Eye of The Spirit By
K.W. . This article describes the so called
Human Consciousness Project, a "master template"
of the various stages, structures, and states of
consciousness reflecting the "Perennial
Philosophy" of mankind consisting of variations
of the world's great wisdom traditions.
(compare: "The
Game of Order").
To the possible corruption of this 'holarchy'
does the author suggest not to get rid of
holarchy per se, but to arrest (and integrate)
their arrogant 'holons' in order to overcome the
historic and collective derailment in our modern
psychology.
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Philosophy
Apollo
and
Dionysus:
From
Warfare to Assimilation in The Birth of Tragedy
and Beyond Good and Evil. BY B.B. 'Accepting and
transforming Apollo's essential weapon, Dionysus
is able to say through the philosopher - and
which mask he wears, we cannot say - : "with so
tense a bow we can now shoot for the most
distant goals."
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History
Worldbook
on Time
&Calendars:
a brief historical overview of the
different timecalender-systems of the different
worldcultures. ( Worldbook is a multimedia
encyplopedia).
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History
Time
and its role in the history of thought and
action
(taken from the Encyclopedia
Britannica). This article discusses the history
of thought about Time distinguishing
process-philosophers and philosopers of the
manifold, philosphers of everlasting life and
philosophers of rebirth in the flow of time. The
prescietific conception of the individual
experience of reality to time and timelessness
is pictured as a groundfor the division between
holders of the cyclic view and holders of the
one-way view of time. Despite of the original
Western religious one way concept, the cyclic
aspect of time has , this article maintains,
gained adherents. With the Greeks the
alternating between love and strife (our Ying
& Yang) opposing the denial of motion and
plurality suggested the flow of time as the
essence of reality. Christian one-way thinking
is thereto recognized as apocalyptic leading to
crisis and collapse also described in modern
social theory. Modern scientific concepts are
described as making systems remaining constant
through time, leading to another kind of
metaphysics.
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History
A
Brief History of Time
- From
Thales to Callippus
by
C.
W.
:
A brief overview of the history of our western
time management. From the perspective of the
ancient greek philosophers are so issues
discussed in the development of our modern
time-awareness. With the old philosophers
setting the foundation for the modern
understanding of chronology is explained that
much depended on a calendar correct for
agricultural purposes.
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Medical
Psychology:
Drugs,
addiction and
control:
By R.M.Reasoning from the movie The
Insider the issue of soft-drug habituation is
discussed in the light of a primordial
predator-neurosis that would obscure our
consciousness and conscience of nature and the
needed human values to get out of the dark of
drug-buse, political indecision and legal
warfare against citizens. The conclusion is that
from confidential knowledge one must manage to
cure from the neurosis and that legally one
should aknowledge the physician as the authority
in matters of legal drug-use.Alien Frequencies
and Aids
Alien
Frequencies and
Aids
by R.M.
This article stresses the importance of
being alert to the themes presented by movies
that constitute analytic material as warning
signals to - in this article- an absence of
relativity in our respect of time. The fear of
alien frequencies and a cure againsrt being
infected with the HIV-virus is discussed to the
example of an s.f. movie.
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Management:
eTime: The
Need for a Cybertime
Epoch.
By
Dr.
J. P. S. (Professor
at the Indian Institute of Management,
Ahmedabad). Based on a review of the Concept of
Time in Philosophy, Physics, Biology and
Psychology, the paper argues that developments
in Cyber-connectivity highlight the absurdity of
treating Time and space as a unitary dimension.
The paper also examines various measures of time
currently available and argues that none of the
measures meet the needs of commerce and law for
transactions carried out in the cyberspace. It
suggests that cyber connectivity presents a
unique opportunity to the scientific world to
de-link Time from Space and free it from the
Geo-link. It therefore suggests that a new
measure of the time and epoch, called eTime be
introduced to fulfil the need for a Cybertime
epoch. The paper further suggests that the
assumed zero of eTime should either be the
origin of the concept of cyberspace by the
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency or the
epoch of signing 'A Declaration of Independence
of Cyberspace', i.e. Fri, Feb 9, 1996 17:16:35
+0100 at Davos, Switzerland.
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Management:
Bhagavad
Gîta and
Management
by:
M.P.B.
(retired Chief Technical Examiner to the
Goverment of Kerala in India)
Management of
time is a systematic way of doing all activities
in any field of human effort. The westem
management thought of prosperity to some for
some time has absolutely failed in its aim to
ensure betterment of individual life and social
welfare. The despondent position of Arjuna in
the first chapter of the Gita
is typical for this human situation which may
come in the life of all men of action some time
or other. Lord Krishna in the Gîta advises
how to manage for a better time. His Time.'
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Philosophy:
A
Small Philosophy of
Association
by:
A.M
(psychologist/webmaster)
One can unite
in the private sphere with a marriage, to a job
with a contract of labor, in the political with
a political party and in the spirit with a
religion. But what exactly would the philosophy
of all that association be? How are all those
associations themselves there as one culture,
what holds us back and confuses us in finding
association and would there be something like a
general order of association? Or what would in
association be the interest of the personal in
contrast with the impersonal, what standards and
values are we talking about, what is the theory
and what is the practice? How does it all cohere
and how is that converted into politics? This
argument offers a short coherent view, a
philosophy of association as a solution for this
complex problem.
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