Arrow of Time

I am fascinated by this subject and read much on it. The question is why does time go forward from the past to the future and not in the reverse direction. Our physics equations run as well in both directions and yet in life, we know that time runs only forward. We have no answer. This book conclusion is that better mathematics will solve the answer. Something I doubt. Anyway this book presents the facts to the reader in an easy to read format.

This is a brilliant piece of work for anyone interested in the "forgotten dimension" and just happens to double as a great history of science as well. I thouroughly recommend this intelligent work.

While I agree that this book raises many questions that are in the end left relatively unanswered, it provides a wonderful introduction to relativity, quantum theory and chaos. It's definitely not the last word, but for anyone grounded in basic introduction level physics it's a wonderful next step. Most of all, this book is a fascinating read, it is well written and has a nice blending of scientific theories and historical anecdotes that makes it difficult to put down.

OK, so bits of it drag. But overall, where else are you going to get such an amazing trawl across the science of time. A great package and it is great to see the same team do something similar with Frontiers of Complexity.

If you have been troubled by the common-sense impossibility of such things as non-interactive detection of sub-atomic particles, backwards causality, the two-slit experiment, or just want to know what IS the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum physics, this book will provide real help. Good backgound reading, and some challenging problems concerning the nature of time, such as temporal asymmetry, are provided in clear readeable prose. Definately a good buy.