Labyrinth of Time
Introducing the Universe
(Sprache: Englisch)
Modern physics has revealed a universe that is a much stranger place than we could have imagined, filled with black holes and dark matter and parallel lines meeting in space. And the puzzle at the center of our present understanding of the universe is time.
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Modern physics has revealed a universe that is a much stranger place than we could have imagined, filled with black holes and dark matter and parallel lines meeting in space. And the puzzle at the center of our present understanding of the universe is time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Labyrinth of Time “
1. Two Concepts of Time ; 2. Time and Space: a Marriage is Arranged ; 3. Taking Space-Time Seriously ; 4. From Flat to Curved Space-Time ; 5. Weaving the Cosmic Tapestry ; 6. Closed Timelike Curves: Science Fact or Science Fiction? ; 7. Classical Time Travel: the Toils of Paradox ; 8. Hamilton's Legacy: Physical Systems and their State Spaces ; 9. Time Asymmetry and the Second Law ; 10. Entropy, Electrodynamics and the Role of Gravity ; 11. 'Drawn Through Life Backwards' ; 12. The Unyielding Past ; 13. The Emergence of Order ; 14. From Quantum Leaps to Schrodinger's Cat ; 15. Schrodinger's Time Traveller ; 16. Space, Time, and Quantum Gravity: Physics at the Frontier ; 17. The Time of Our Lives ; 18. Epilogue
Autoren-Porträt von Michael Lockwood
Michael Lockwood is a Fellow of Green College, at Oxford University, where he has taught philosophy for many years. His books include the highly acclaimed Mind, Brain, and the Quantum.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael Lockwood
- 416 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- ISBN-10: 0199217262
- ISBN-13: 9780199217267
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Michael Lockwood's book The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe has just appeared. I highly recommend it. It's a wonderful overview of the physics and philosophy of time, crafted extremely carefully and engagingly (yet without compromising any content) for the lay reader, superbly produced and illustrated. Oh, and it's true." --Professor David Deutsch, author of The Fabric of Reality"Lockwood takes the informed general reader through relativity theory and quantum physics on the large scale as well as the very small, reviewing theories of Newton, Boltzmann, Einstein, Penrose, Schrodinger and Hawking and the notions of flat and curved time-space, closed timelike curves, the paradoxes of time travel, time asymmetry and the Second Law, entropy, electrodynamics, the emergence of order, quantum jumps, quantum gravity, and the role of the human observer in all of it. Lockwood's illustrations are particularly clear and helpful and his references could serve as a model for like works."--SciTech Book News
"Lockwood...accomplishes here what may be lacking in other writings about the physics and philosophy of time...Lockwood is a gifted writer; the book is interesting, challenging and fun."--CHOICE
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