عنوان

About time :

(Number (ISBN

0140174613

(Number (ISBN

0671799649

(Number (ISBN

9780140174618

(Number (ISBN

9780671799649

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b527079

Title Proper

About time :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

Einstein's unfinished revolution /

First Statement of Responsibility

Paul Davies

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Simon & Schuster,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[1995]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1995

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

316 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

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25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-294) and index

Text of Note

Preface -- Prologue -- Very brief history of time -- Whose time is it anyway? -- Quest for eternity -- Escape from time -- Cyclic worlds and the eternal return -- Newton's time and the clockwork universe -- Einstein's time -- Is the universe dying? -- Return of the eternal return -- Start of it all -- It happens when it happens -- Time for a change -- Gift from heaven -- Goodbye to the ether -- Timely solution -- Interlude -- Stretching time -- Puzzle of the twins -- Goodbye to the present -- Time is money -- Timescape -- Timewarps -- Light barrier -- Perpetual motion and the uphill struggle -- Why time runs faster in space -- Clock in the box -- Best clock in the universe -- Echo that arrived late -- Going up in the world -- Black holes: Gateways to the end of time -- Warp factor infinity -- Dark mystery -- Penetrating the magic circle -- Singular problem -- Beyond the end of time -- Are they really out there? -- Beginning of time: When exactly was it? -- Great clock in the sky -- Big bang and what happened before it -- Older than the universe? -- Einstein's greatest mistake -- Two-timing the cosmos -- Einstein's greatest triumph? -- Handwriting of God -- Did the big bang ever happen? -- What's a few billion years among friends? -- Repulsive problem -- Loitering universe -- Quantum time -- Time to tunnel -- Watched kettles -- Erasing the past -- Spooky signals and psychic particles -- Faster than light? -- Time vanishes! -- Imaginary time -- Two cultures revisited -- How time got started -- Hartle-Hawking theory -- Imaginary clocks -- Arrow of time -- Catching the wave -- Signals from the future -- Matter of time reversal -- Particle that can tell the time -- Lopsided universe -- Backwards in time -- Into reverse -- Thinking backwards -- Antiworlds -- Winding the clock back -- Hawking's greatest mistake -- Time for everybody -- Time travel: Fact or fantasy? -- Signaling the past -- Visiting the past -- Black-hole time machines -- Wormholes and strings -- Paradox -- But what time is it now? -- Can time really flow? -- Myth of passage -- Does the arrow of time fly? -- Why now? -- Experimenting with time -- How long does the present last? -- Now you see it, now you don't -- Filling in time -- Subjective time -- Back door to our minds -- Unfinished revolution -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Text of Note

Examines the consequences of Einstein's relativity theory, exploring the mystery of time and considering black holes, time travel, the existence of God, and the nature of the universe

Title

About time.

Einstein, Albert,1879-1955

Astrophysics

Relativity (Physics)

Space and time

Astrophysique

Espace et temps

Relativité (Physique)

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Edition

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Book number

Davies, P. C. W

Date of Transaction

20160712060425.0

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[Book]

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