HC407 Reading Assignments (by week number) S 2013

[Books are listed by author; articles in photocopy collection (*) by author and title.]

Week 2. Classical Time (Davies, Chapter 1)

Lestienne, Chapters 1-6 Coveney & Highfield, Chapters 1 & 2

Morris, Chapters 1-4 Park, Chapters 1-4

Novikov, Chapters 1 & 2

Week 3. Time in Special Relativity (Davies, Chapter 2)

Coveney & Highfield, Chapter 3 Baker, Chapters 4-8

Lestienne, Chapters 7, 8, and 10 Novikov, Chapters 3 & 4

Week 4. Time in Special Relativity (Davies, Chapter 2)

Gott, Chapter 2 Salmon, Chapters 3 & 4 (uses a little algebra)

or choose a different reading from week 3

Week 5. Time in General Relativity (Davies, Chapters 3,4)

Flood and Lockwood, Chapters 4 & 5 Hawking, Chapters 6-9

Carroll, Chapters 3 & 5 Barbour, Chapters 8-11

Collins and Pinch, Chapter 2

*Earman and Glymour, “Relativity and Eclipses: The British Eclipse Expeditions of 1919"

Week 6. Time and Thermodynamics

Coveney & Highfield, Chapter 5 Horwich, Chapter 4

Flood and Lockwood, Chapter 6 Morris, Chapters 7 & 8

Novikov, Chapter 13 Carroll, Chapters 2 & 8

Week 7. Time and Cosmology (Davies, Chapters 5,6)

Weinberg, Chapter 4-6 Morris, Chapters 10 & 11

Savitt, Chapter 2 Carroll, Chapters 13 & 14

Price, Chapter 4

Week 8. Time Travel (Davies, Chapter 11)

Parker, Chapters 10&11 Horwich, Chapter 7

Nahin, Chapter 4 (pick several sections) Novikov, Chapters 14 & 15

Gott, Chapter 3 Carroll, Chapter 6

Week 9. Time Reversal (Davies, Chapters 9,10)

Zee, Chapters 1,2,3 & 16 Carroll, Chapter 7

Albert, Chapters 1 & 6

*Three articles (read all of them): Sachs, "Time Reversal," Science 176 (12 May 1976) p. 587; Overseth, "Experiments in Time Reversal," Scientific American (October 1969) p. 89; Zee, “Time Reversal,” Discover (October 1992) p.96

Week 10. Quantum Time (Davies, Chapter 7)

Coveney & Highfield, Chapter 4 Flood and Lockwood, Chapter 7

Carroll, Chapter 11 Barbour, Chapters 12-14

Albert, Chapters 1 & 7 Price, Chapter 8