Everywhere and Everywhen Adventures in Physics and Philosophy [Paperback]

Why does time pass and space does not? Are there just three dimensions? What is a quantum particle? Nick Huggett shows that philosophy -- armed with a power to analyze fundamental concepts and their relationship to the human experience -- has much to say about these profound questions about the universe. InEverywhere and Everywhen,Huggett charts a journey that peers into some of the oldest questions about the world, through some of the newest, such as: What shape is space? Does it have an edge? What is the difference between past and future? What is time in relativity? Is time travel possible? Are there other universes?
Huggett shows that answers to these profound questions are not just reserved for physics, and that philosophy can not only address but help advance our view of our deepest questions about the universe, space, and time, and their implications for humanity. His lively, accessible introduction to these topics is suitable for a general reader with no previous exposure to these profound and exciting questions.

1. A Longish Introduction: The Problem of Change
1.1 Melissus's Paradox
1.2 What is Change?
1.3 Laws
1.4 Spacetime Today

2. Zeno's Paradoxes
2.1 The Dichotomy Paradox
2.2 Supertasks

3. Zeno's Arrow Paradox
3.1 The Paradox
3.2 What Philosophy Can Teach Physics

4. The Shape of Space I-Topology
4.1 An End to Space?
4.2 Neither Bounded Nor Infinite;
4.3 What Physics Can Teach Philosophy

5. Beyond the Third Dimension?
5.1 Multi-Dimensional Life
5.2 More Than Three Dimensions?

6. Why Three Dimensions?
6.1 The Force of Gravity and the Dimensions of Space
6.2 Does Intelligent Life Take Three Dimensions?
6.3 Is the Universe Made for Humans?
6.4 The Megaverse; 6.5 Philosophy in Physics

7. The Shape of Space II-Curved Space?