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Overview
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.
From the author of The Mind of God and God and the New Physics comes a supremely mature and original work that takes up the riddle of time and examines the consequences of Einstein's relativity theory, now 100 years old. Line drawings, charts, and graphs.
Synopsis
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.
Publishers Weekly
Australian scientist Davies's accessible account of Einstein's theory of relativity and of current scientific theories regarding the nature of time. (Apr.)