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Labyrinth of Time Introducing the Universe

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ISBN-10: 0199217262

ISBN-13: 9780199217267

Edition: 2007

Authors: Michael Lockwood

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Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He investigates philosophical questions about past, present, and future, our experience of time, and the possibility of time travel. And he provides the most careful, lively, and up-to-date introduction to the physics of time and the structure of the universe. He guides us step by step through relativity theory and quantum physics, introducing and explaining the ground-breaking ideas of Newton and Boltzmann, Einstein and Schroedinger, Penrose and…    
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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Two Concepts of Time
Time and Space: A Marriage is Arranged
Taking Space-Time Seriously
From Flat to Curved Space-Time
Weaving the Cosmic Tapestry
Closed Timelike Curves: Science Fact or Science Fiction?
Classical Time Travel: The Toils of Paradox
Hamilton's Legacy: Physical Systems and their State Spaces
Time Asymmetry and the Second Law
Entropy, Electrodynamics, and the Role of Gravity
'Drawn through Life Backwards'
The Unyielding Past
The Emergence of Order
From Quantum Jumps to Schrodinger's Cat
Schrodinger's Time-Traveller
Space, Time, and Quantum Gravity: Physics at the Frontier
The Time of our Lives
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