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The arrow of time : a voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery / Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield ; foreword by Ilya Prigogine
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TextPublication details: New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1991Edition: 1st American edDescription: 378 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN: - 0449906302
- 9780449906309
- ARCH YNDC 529 C873A 20
- QB209 .C64 1991
- 529 C873a
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Summary: Discusses time, its perception, and proposes an explanation of time as we know it
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
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| ARCH YNDC 523.1 W592P Process and reality ; an essay in cosmology. | ARCH YNDC 523.109 W947C Cosmology in antiquity / | ARCH YNDC 523.2 G643P The privileged planet : how our place in the cosmos is designed for discovery / | ARCH YNDC 529 C873A The arrow of time : a voyage through science to solve time's greatest mystery / | ARCH YNDC 530 D255M The matter myth : dramatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of physical reality / | ARCH YNDC 530 M967K Knowing : the nature of physical law / | ARCH YNDC 530 R545T Time, space, and things / |
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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