Time - Atomic, Scales, Measurement

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Introduction
Time and its role in the history of thought and action
- Nature and definition of time
- Prescientific conceptions of time and their influence
  - The individual’s experience and observation of time
  - Cyclic view of time in the philosophy of history
    - Environmental recurrences and religion
    - The cyclic view in various cultures
  - One-way view of time in the philosophy of history
- Early modern and 19th-century scientific philosophies of time
Contemporary philosophies of time
- Time in 20th-century philosophy of physics
  - Time in the special theory of relativity
  - Time in general relativity and cosmology
  - Time in microphysics
    - Quantum mechanical aspects of time
    - Time in particle interactions
  - Time in molar physics
- Time in 20th-century philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind
Time as systematized in modern scientific society
- Time measurement: general concepts
  - Principal scales
  - Relativistic effects
  - Clocks
  - Time units and calendar divisions
    - Lengths of years and months
    - Astronomical years and dates
- Rotational time
  - Standard time
  - Universal Time
  - Variations in the Earth’s rotation rate
  - Coordinated Universal Time; leap seconds
  - Time determination
- Dynamical time
  - Ephemeris Time
  - Ephemeris second
  - TDB and TDT
- Atomic time
  - Basic principles
  - Atomic clocks
    - Cesium clocks
    - Other atomic clocks
  - SI second
  - Atomic time scales
  - Time and frequency dissemination
  - Relativistic effects
- Pulsar time
- Radiometric time
- Problems of cosmology and uniform time

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