The End of Certainty
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The End of Certainty

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The End of CertaintyTime, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a year was, or asked ourselves when now happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton

Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a year was, or asked ourselves when now happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 08/17/1997
ISBN: 9780684837055
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.75w x 0.93d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/1997 pg. 937
Booklist 08/01/1997 pg. 1862
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