The labyrinth of time : introducing the universe / Michael Lockwood.
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,...
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Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 emergency of order
- From quantum jumps to Schrödinger's cat
- Schrödinger's time-traveller
- Space, time, and quantum gravity: physics at the frontier
- The time of our lives.