1 st Intercontinental Academia: An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Study on Time
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News on talks and activities
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The modern lifestyle has led many individuals to develop what chronobiologist Till Roenneberg defined as “social jet lag” syndrome.
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The biological processes of most living beings are governed by the circadian clock, a natural timepiece that adjusts internal vital rhythms to external environmental rhythms, regulating cellular metabolic activity according to cycles of light and dark.
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Critical reports about the event
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In their closing report, the young scholars presented a very cohesive and ambitious proposal of what we can expect to see in Japan.
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Last talk was special to reflect about the multiplicity of topics that were treated in the previous expositions and, as Jorge Luis Borges says, the “ubiquitous problem of time”.
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Videos
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Concepts of time across the cultures: an anthropological view
What people understand by “time” – if an equivalent to the english term exists at all – is always culturally embedded.
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Constructing Time In Physics - Attempts
How physicists have been attempting to come to grips with the experience of a time and it's flow. This will involve glimpses at the concepts discovered and developed to study large and small time scales. Such ideas includes Unified theories and String theory.
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Photos
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