The arrow of time : a voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery /

Coveney, Peter

The arrow of time : a voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery / Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield ; foreword by Ilya Prigogine - 1st American ed - New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1991 - 378 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-359) and index

Images of time -- The rise of Newtonian physics: time loses its direction -- Relativity: how time defeated Einstein -- A quantum leap for time -- The arrow of time: thermodynamics -- Creative evolution -- Arrow of time, arrow of life -- A unified vision of time -- The unended quest

Discusses time, its perception, and proposes an explanation of time as we know it

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QB209 / .C64 1991

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