From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
by:
Sean Carroll (author)
"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists...
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"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452296541 (0452296544)
ASIN: 452296544
Publish date: October 26th 2010
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
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FREE From Eternity to Here COMPATIBILITY TESTRead through the following dialogue between two people, A and B. Underline all the sentences which you can imagine saying yourself.____________________________________________A: What are you thinking?B: Have you ever wondered why the future is different f...
"Understand Entropy, you'll understand the universe"He states Dark Energy comes from the vacuum energy. He completely delves into the 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) and explains it historically and with superb analogies. The expansion of the universe is finally starting to make sense to me. I r...
Simply the best popular physics book I've ever read. Carroll is amazingly lucid, practical and totally excited about the subject while being conscious of the problems inherent in understanding something that is so fundamental to our existence that we take it for granted: time. What is time? Does it ...
Check out the dude's blog, Cosmic Variance, first