Now : the physics of time /
You are reading the word 'now' right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment 'now' so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. Einstein showed that the flow of time...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Amazing time. The entangled enigma ; Einstein's childhood regression ; The leaping now ; Contradictions and paradoxes ; Lightspeed limit, lightspeed loophole ; Imaginary time ; To infinity and beyond
- Part II: Broken arrow. An arrow of confusion ; Demystifying entropy ; Mystifying entropy ; Time explained ; Our unlikely universe ; The universe erupts ; The end of time ; Throwing entropy under the bus ; Alternative arrows
- Par III: Spooky physics. A cat both dead and alive ; Tickling the quantum ghost ; Einstein is spooked ; Backward time travel observed
- Part IV: Physics and reality. Beyond physics ; Cogito ergo sum ; Free will
- Part V: Now. The 4D Big Bang ; The meaning of now.