ISOCHRONY

Charles François (2004). ISOCHRONY, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1788.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(1)
ID	◀ 1788 ▶
Object type	General information, Methodology or model

The character of time , whose flow is regular and uniform.

This definition presents some difficulties. In the first place, the perception of the flow of time is subjective. Moreover, if meeted through its effects in biology, or mechanics, or whatever, different rythms , and periodicities appear, which can be compared only by clockworks, in itself a human construction (A. MISSENARD, 1940)

P.R. MASANI writes that time is“isotropic”which means in his words that “the past-future distinction is objective”(1998, p. 71). Truly, “isotropy ”is a property of space whose extension to time is debatable.

However iso- or anisotropic effects in the propagation of some events (for example a new technique) can be meeted in terms of time.