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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution

By Paul Davies

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1996
ISBN
0684818221, 9780684818221
LCC
QC173.59.S65 D37 2005
Open Library ID
OL18018284M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2569509 bytes)
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster Pbk. Ed
Pages
313\313
Topic
Physics
DPI
300
Time added
2011-01-23 12:00:00

Description

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.

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