The general purpose of this list is to support discussion about time and chronometry in both physical and philosophical contexts. The specific and immediate purpose which motivated the creation of the list was to create a forum for the discussion of the Theory of Local Time which is being developed by Hitoshi Kitada of the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the University of Tokyo. [See: H. Kitada, "Theory of Local Times," Il Nuovo Cimento, 109B, N. 3 281-302. and H. Kitada "Theory of Local Times II. Another formulation and examples," preprint gr-qc/9403007.



Hitoshi Kitada's website, which contains a large selection of relevant materials, is:
http://kims.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
or http://www.kitada.com



This is one of a group of lists hosted by The Free Lance Academy, whose main purpose is to create opportunities for serious, committed intellectual inquiry outside the university, primarily by means of online media such as internet mailing lists.