The Arrow Of Time: A Voyage Through Science To Solve Time's Greatest Mystery
Roger Highfield; Peter Coveney
Language: English
Published by Ballantine Books, 1992
- Softcover
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- Title
- The Arrow Of Time: A Voyage Through Science To Solve Time's Greatest Mystery
- Author
- Roger Highfield; Peter Coveney
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0449907236
- ISBN 13
- 9780449907238
- Item weight
- 1.22 pounds
In The Arrow of Time, a major bestseller in England, Dr. Peter Coveney, a research scientist, and award-winning journalist Dr. Roger Highfield, demonstrate that the commonsense view of time agrees with the most advanced scientific theory. Time does in fact move like an arrow, shooting forward into what is genuinely unknown, leaving the past immutably behind. The authors make their case by exploring three centuries of science, offering bold reinterpretations of Newton's mechanics, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and advancing the insights of James Gleick's Chaos.
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The Boston Globe
"[An] extraordinary book...A work of theoretical synthesis, imaginatively written for an intelligent lay audience, that comes to a brain-wrenching conclusion."
The Washington Post Book World
"Straightforward...Scholarly...Intellectually rich...The book manages to capture the excitement and puzzlement of time."
San Francisco Chronicle
"This is an important book....I heartily commend this volume."
John Laurent
New Scientist
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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