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About Time: Einstein's Unfinished RevolutionStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionLooks at the highly challenging, scientific problems currently surrounding the question of time - the age of the universe, the relative nature of time and faster-than-light communication. Author descriptionPaul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, now based in South Australia. He is the author of some twenty award-winning books, including The Mind of God and The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin of Life. Table of contentsA very brief history of time; time for a change; timewarps; black holes - gateways to the end of time; the beginning of time - when exactly was it?; Einstein's greatest triumph?; quantum time; imaginary time; the arrow of time; backwards in time; time travel - fact or fantasy?; but what time is it now?; experimenting with time; the unfinished revolution. |