Now the physics of time
A monumental work on the flow of time, from the universe's creation to "Now," by the best-selling author of Physics for Future Presidents. "Now" is a simple concept--you're reading this sentence now. Yet a real definition of "now" has eluded even the great Ein...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
W.W. Norton & Company
2016
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007905009708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The entangled enigma
- Einstein's childhood regression
- The leaping now
- Contradictions and paradoxes
- Lightspeed limit, lightspeed loophole
- Imaginary time
- To infinity and beyond
- An arrow of confusion
- Demystifying entropy
- Mystifying entropy
- Time explained
- Our unlikely universe
- The universe erupts
- The end of time
- Throwing entropy under the bus
- Alternative arrows
- A cat both dead and alive
- Tickling the quantum ghost
- Einstein is spooked
- Backward time travel observed
- Beyond physics
- Cogito ergo sum
- Free will
- The 4D Big Bang
- The meaning of now.
