D. H. Mellor

A good read! It’s a treatise on the nature of time, which made quite an impression on me when I read it. It presents a vision of the world in metaphysical categories. It tells you about the nature of time, the nature of space, things, objects, events, in a way that is connected, but not the same as the physics of time and space.
Hugh is someone who is very informed by those views and knows the physics of space and time very well. He uses his knowledge of those, and his philosophical arguments, to defend a view of time, where time is rather like space. I think the simplest way to put it is to say that there’s no such thing in reality as now, there’s nothing that marks out in fundamental reality, which time is now, any more than there’s something that marks out in the fundamental reality of space which place is here. Here is just where I am, and now is just the point in time which we’re thinking or uttering those words, so Hugh Mellor’s view has been called a block universe view of space and time.
Block universe in the sense that time is just one of the dimensions of space-time. It’s a view that is common in physics, that we should think of space-time as a whole, like a four-dimensional block. If you imagine things occurring within space-time are just regions of that block, four-dimensional regions of it, or what sometimes people call space-time worms. So, it’s called the block universe because time and space have the same ontological standing, that is to say, they exist in exactly the same way.… (more)

A good read! It’s a treatise on the nature of time, which made quite an impression on me when I read it. It presents a vision of the world in metaphysical categories. It tells you about the nature of time, the nature of space, things, objects, events, in a way that is connected, but not the same as the physics of time and space.
Hugh is someone who is very informed by those views and knows the physics of space and time very well. He uses his knowledge of those, and his philosophical arguments, to defend a view of time, where time is rather like space. I think the simplest way to put it is to say that there’s no such thing in reality as now, there’s nothing that marks out in fundamental reality, which time is now, any more than there’s something that marks out in the fundamental reality of space which place is here. Here is just where I am, and now is just the point in time which we’re thinking or uttering those words, so Hugh Mellor’s view has been called a block universe view of space and time.
Block universe in the sense that time is just one of the dimensions of space-time. It’s a view that is common in physics, that we should think of space-time as a whole, like a four-dimensional block. If you imagine things occurring within space-time are just regions of that block, four-dimensional regions of it, or what sometimes people call space-time worms. So, it’s called the block universe because time and space have the same ontological standing, that is to say, they exist in exactly the same way.… (more)

Summary:
This book is about all the different properties. It tells certain info about each property. Properties like solids, liquids, and gasses are listed throughout this book. This book describes things that fall under each property. It also give extra details on how to weigh something or measure it. It shows the differences between solids, liquids, and gasses.

Reflection:
This book would be a great book to read to younger kids so they can semi grasp the concept of these properties. It will help them better know the difference between gasses and liquids, solids and liquids, and solids and gasses. The pictures really help show what is being talked about, so this might help those children who learn better when they see things.

1. Do experiments using these properties
2. Have the kids bring in examples of the liquids, solids, and gasses… (more)

Summary:
Properties is a good informational book for early elementary science. I think this is a good book for science because it's colorful and is written in simple terms. Also, it has a glossary in the back which would provide students with additional help in understand science.

Personal Reaction:
I don't really like science but I enjoyed this book. I think it's easy to understand and the pictures make it a fun read. I would definitely use this someday when teaching a science lesson.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. I would read this to a class to start a science lesson. At the end of the lesson, I would give the students a quiz on the glossary terms at the end of the book.

2. For another science class activity, I would split the children into groups and assign them different properties. The groups could be solids, liquids, and gases. The students in each group would have to write down things that fit in their group.… (more)