PARADIGMS OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND SUBSTANTIAL TEMPOROLOGY

摘要

One may formulate some implicit premises that dominate in current natural science: 1. Studies of time are performed by philosophy rather than by natural science. 2. Time in science is an initial, undefinable concept. 3. To measure time, it is sufficient to have physical clocks on the basis of gravitational or electromagnetic processes. 4. The problems of time in natural science are the solved or unsolved problems of relativity theory. 5. Our Universe is an isolated system. 6. The conceptual armoury of science has no place for substances like phlogiston, light-bearing ether, entelecheia, etc.