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

Roger Highfield,Peter Coveney

ISBN 10: 0449907236 / ISBN 13: 9780449907238

Editore: Ballantine Books, 1992

Riguardo questo articolo

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Codice articolo S_409962147

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: The Arrow Of Time: A Voyage Through Science To Solve Time's Greatest Mystery
• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0449907236
• ISBN 13: 9780449907238
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Very Good

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

Surveys scientific discoveries from Newton to the present to solve the mystery of time and offer a radical new theory about time running backward

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

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.