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. In addition, I am currently working with
Hitoshi to elaborate the implications of the ideas contained in his earlier
papers. The paper is being published in the journal Apeiron as "Local Time and
the Unification of Physics." Part I is available in the October, 1996 issue of
Apeiron. An Acrobat version of Part I may be obtained from
http://www.freelance-academy.org/time]

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

For technically oriented discussion of the Theory of Local Time, Hitoshi has
established a separate list. To request subscription to this list, send a
message to: majordomo@... and, in the body of the message, write:

subscribe time

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.

Group Manager: time-owner@egroups.com

To subscribe, send a message to time-subscribe@egroups.com or go to the
e-group's home page at http://www.egroups.com/list/time