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Loading... About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolutionby Paul Davies
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Accessible to a lay reader. Davies is great at making complicated subjects understandable. (  ) bcup | Aug 3, 2007 |  SeriousGrace | Feb 21, 2007 | Davies makes a good stab at explaining some of the oddest and most paradoxical ideas in modern physics. Rewarding, if conjectural astrophysics turns you on, but ultimately hamstrung by the lineal fixation of modern science. For a richer exploration of time (and its effects on consciousness), I recommend Gebser, Korzybski, and Bergson. (  ) stancarey | Oct 7, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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The eternal questions of science and religion were profoundly recast by Einstein's theory of relativity and its implications that time can be warped by motion and gravitation, and that it cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future.
In About Time, Paul Davies discusses the big bang theory, chaos theory, and the recent discovery that the universe appears to be younger than some of the objects in it, concluding that Einstein's theory provides only an incomplete understanding of the nature of time. Davies explores unanswered questions such as:
* Does the universe have a beginning and an end?
* Is the passage of time merely an illusion?
* Is it possible to travel backward -- or forward -- in time?
About Time weaves physics and metaphysics in a provocative contemplation of time and the universe.
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