PhilPapers 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 1 daily Tm Malm: philosophy of
time <p><strong>Philosophy of Time</strong></p><p></p><p>The
<em>nature of time</em> has had extensive attention in part down
through the ages, such as Plato, St. Augustine, Pascal,
Leonardo, Newton etc. For example, Newton considered time to
flow uniformly, as if it were a separate manifold (1-surface)
from the 3-surface of his mechanics described universe.</p>
‘Absolute, true, and mathematical time, of itself, and from its
own nature, flows equably without relation to anything
external…’ &nbsp;Newton’s Principia <p>For a 3-manifold, this
would give a product space description M^3 x M^1, the simplest
fiber bundle description. Hence such description would be
universal; that is the same common time for throughout the
universe. Subsequently, the relativistic model refers to time as
the interval between events, wherein clocks are associated with
respective observers. However an event such as the Big Bang, and
concomitant Big Expansion of our manifo