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TimeCoder2014-12-08 00:19:58
Time Management
TimeCoder, 2014-12-08 00:19:58

What do you think the science of time should be called?

Needless to say, how important and exciting the topic of time is to study. Due to the fact that this is one of the fundamental principles of reality, time permeates all scientific disciplines and world culture. Mankind has accumulated a lot of knowledge about time, but they are very scattered. Thus, the nature of space-time is considered in physics (the theory of relativity), psychology (subjective time), geology (geochronological epochs), history (eras), economics (Kondratiev cycles), etc. (if I don’t stop now, the question will turn into an article ). At the same time, there is a science about fish, a science about aging, about many other things, and it is very strange that there is no science about time. Given that time is too global a concept for one science (at least, I would like not to miss culture, i.e. to study the manifestation of time in myths, symbols, etc.),
What would be the best name for this area of ​​expertise? The ideally suitable word "chronology" ("the doctrine of time"), alas, is occupied (and what it means is by no means "..logy", i.e. you cannot call it a doctrine). Chronophysics? Reasonably, and by the way, this word is often found in science fiction, but it clearly connects this area of ​​​​knowledge with physics (and the topic of time goes far beyond its limits, because it requires, among other things, a philosophical rethinking of time). Temporology? It doesn’t sound very good to me, the root “chrono” is somehow more pleasant. Chronomatics? Chronosophia? Chrononomy? With Russian roots, nothing really comes to mind: "temporal science" is perhaps.

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Philipp, 2014-12-08
@zoonman

Chronotronics, chronography, and there it is not far from chronoscopy with chronophobia.

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Renat Bugrov, 2014-12-18
@renat79

So like OK was somewhere official name.
and I would personally call chronometry

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