The Arrow of Time : A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery - Hardcover
Surveys every scientific discovery from Newton to the present to solve the mystery of time and offer a radical new theory about time running backward
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ry, 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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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.
"A whirlwind tour of relativity, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, chaos and more...The book proves to even the scientifically ignorant that science itself can be a labor of love."
The Boston Globe
"[An] extraordinary book...A work of theoretical synthesis, imaginatively written for an intelligent lay audience, that comes to a brain-wrenching conclusion."
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"Straightforward...Scholarly...Intellectually rich...The book manages to capture the excitement and puzzlement of time."
San Francisco Chronicle
"This is an important book....I heartily commend this volume."
John Laurent
New Scientist
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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- PublisherFawcett
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0449906302
- ISBN 13 9780449906309
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages378
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