From Eternity to Here The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

Name: From Eternity to Here The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
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ISBN: 9780452296541

ISBN-10: 0452296544

ISBN-13: 9780452296541

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Authors: Sean Carroll

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"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of "The Elegant Universe" Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. "From Eternity to Here" is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Prologue



Time, Experience, and the Universe



The Past Is Present Memory



The Heavy Hand of Entropy



The Beginning and End of Time



Time in Einstein's Universe



Time Is Personal



Time Is Flexible



Looping Through Time



Entropy and Time's Arrow



Running Time Backward



Entropy and Disorder



Information and Life



Recurrent Nightmares



Quantum Time



From the Kitchen to the Multiverse



Black Holes: The Ends of Time



The Life of the Universe



Inflation and the Multiverse



The Past Through Tomorrow



Epilogue


Appendix: Math


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index