Anthony P. Stone

Anthony P. Stone
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Known for	Speculative writing on the nature of time (chronos and kairos) and tachyons; ISO 15919
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Delhi

Anthony P. Stone is a British mathematician and theoretical physicist known, alongside his academic work, for speculative writing on the nature of time and on tachyons. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.

Career

Stone took his first degree in mathematics and his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Oxford. From 1956 to 1975 he taught mathematics at universities in India, including St. Stephen's College at the University of Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Indian Association for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and led the development of the international standard ISO 15919 for the transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts.

Ideas

On his personal website Stone has written on the metaphysics of time, distinguishing chronos — the measurable physical time of physics — from kairos, which he describes as an ordered but unmeasured kind of time lying outside space-time and which he treats as fundamental, with chronos derived from it. He has also written on tachyons, hypothetical faster-than-light particles, relating them to the notion of impulse. This speculative work, which lies outside mainstream physics, is the basis for his listing under the "Superluminal" heading of de Climont's directory.

External links

• Personal website (on time)
• Biography (Pippa Rann Books & Media)