The Arrow Of Time: A Voyage Through Science To Solve Time's Greatest Mystery

The Arrow Of Time: A Voyage Through Science To Solve Time's Greatest Mystery image
ISBN-10:

0449907236

ISBN-13:

9780449907238

Released: Jun 23, 1992
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback, 377 pages
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Description:

In our century, the subject of time has become an area of serious inquiry for science. Theories that contain time as a simple quantity form the basis of our understanding of many scientific disciplines, yet the debate rages on: why does there seem to be a direction to time, an arrow of time pointing from past to future?

In The Arrow of Time, a major bestseller in England, Dr. Peter Coveney, a research scientist, and award-winning journalist Dr. Roger Highfield, demonstrate that the commonsense view of time agrees with the most advanced scientific theory. Time does in fact move like an arrow, shooting forward into what is genuinely unknown, leaving the past immutably behind. The authors make their case by exploring three centuries of science, offering bold reinterpretations of Newton's mechanics, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and advancing the insights of James Gleick's Chaos.












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