About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal.
Read more
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 Timeweaves physics and metaphysics in a provocative contemplation of time and the universe.
Liked About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe Shares science, physics, nonfiction -
New Theories of Everything Shares science, physics, nonfiction -
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Shares science, physics, nonfiction -
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions Shares science, physics, nonfiction
