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Mathematical, Religious, and Psychological Time

Mathematical, Religious, and Psychological Time. Jenieri Cyrus, Richard Fu, Maurice Johnson, Alicia Rodriguez, Emma Smith. The Confessions of St. Augustine. An autobiographical book of detailing Augustine's life from his time as a "sinful youth" to his conversion to Christianity.

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Mathematical, Religious, and Psychological Time

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  1. Mathematical, Religious, and Psychological Time Jenieri Cyrus, Richard Fu, Maurice Johnson, Alicia Rodriguez, Emma Smith

  2. The Confessions of St. Augustine • An autobiographical book of detailing Augustine's life from his time as a "sinful youth" to his conversion to Christianity. • Written as a direct address to god. • Record of Augustine's development of thought.

  3. Main Topics of Book XI • Nature of time • Eternity of God • Temporality of Earth • Human understanding of time: Past, Present, and Future

  4. When did time start? • Genesis • Literal v. Spiritual • Mechanism of Creation • "And God Said"

  5. Is creation temporal? "...everything which begins to be and ceases to be begins and ends its existence at that moment when, in the eternal reason where nothing begins or ends, it is known that it is right for it to begin and end." • Eternal Design • "Beginning" • Impossibility of Creation...

  6. The Nature of Time • 3 divisions of time (Past, Present and Future) • "indeed we cannot truly say that time exists except in the sense that it tends toward non-existence"

  7. The Nature of Time • "What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobody asks me; but if I am asked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled."

  8. Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity Relative theory made it difficult to conduct experiments with accuracy

  9. Galileo Galilei No Instruments or techniques to measure time

  10. Highest point of swing was the same regardless of displacement • Heartbeats measured time during the chandelier model • Principle of pendulum was the blueprint for the clock

  11. Aristotle and Galileo "If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

  12. Determining Acceleration

  13. The Marriage of Mathematical, Psychological, and Religious Time

  14. Questions??

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