About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
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An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal.
The eternal questions of science and religion were profoundly recast by Einstein's theory of relativity and its implications that time can be warped by motion and gravitation, and that it cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future.
In About Time, Paul Davies discusses the big bang theory, chaos theory, and the recent discovery that the universe appears to be younger than some of the objects in it, concluding that Einstein's theory provides only an incomplete understanding of the nature of time. Davies explores unanswered questions such as:
* Does the universe have a beginning and an end?
* Is the passage of time merely an illusion?
* Is it possible to travel backward -- or forward -- in time?
About Time weaves physics and metaphysics in a provocative contemplation of time and the universe.
The eternal questions of science and religion were profoundly recast by Einstein's theory of relativity and its implications that time can be warped by motion and gravitation, and that it cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future.
In About Time, Paul Davies discusses the big bang theory, chaos theory, and the recent discovery that the universe appears to be younger than some of the objects in it, concluding that Einstein's theory provides only an incomplete understanding of the nature of time. Davies explores unanswered questions such as:
* Does the universe have a beginning and an end?
* Is the passage of time merely an illusion?
* Is it possible to travel backward -- or forward -- in time?
About Time weaves physics and metaphysics in a provocative contemplation of time and the universe.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0684818221
ISBN13:9780684818221
Release Date:April 1996
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.87 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Great revealing information, easy to understand
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is by far one of the best books I have read in a long time. It explains strange ideas in time and quantum physics and such. It was also very explanatory and easy to comprehend, even to me, a 13 year old.
The best book out there for understanding this universe
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is a masterpiece. I have read all of the relativity/time books by Hawking, Feynman, Rohrlich, etc., and this is the best by far. It is extremely easy to understand, plus Davies presents ideas that most authors leave out (such as Wheeler's single particle universe). If you have any interest in relativity or the nature of time, read this one.
Can "Time" be really non-existent?
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Paul Davies doesn't mince words. I just finished reading this book so I flipped to page 1 and started over again. It's a very enjoyable, exciting journey. I agree with the first reviewer who said it reminded him of reading a novel. The book is somewhat technical and some of it was over my head, but I read it because I knew it would be slightly beyond my grasp. I like the challenge. I liked the chapters on quantum physics the most. Oh, I'm no writer, so I'll just say it's an excellent, entertaining, incredibly thought-provoking journey to a place I wanted to go!
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