Modern physics has revealed a universe that is a much stranger place than we could have imagined, filled with black holes and dark matter and parallel lines meeting in space. And the puzzle at the center of our present understanding of the universe is time.
Modern physics has revealed a universe that is a much stranger place than we could have imagined, filled with black holes and dark matter and parallel lines meeting in space. And the puzzle at the center of our present understanding of the universe is time.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Lockwood is a Fellow of Green College, at Oxford University, where he has taught philosophy for many years. His books include the highly acclaimed Mind, Brain, and the Quantum.
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1: Two Concepts of Time 2: Time and Space: a Marriage is Arranged 3: Taking Space-Time Seriously 4: From Flat to Curved Space-Time 5: Weaving the Cosmic Tapestry 6: Closed Timelike Curves: Science Fact or Science Fiction? 7: Classical Time Travel: the Toils of Paradox 8: Hamilton's Legacy: Physical Systems and their State Spaces 9: Time Asymmetry and the Second Law 10: Entropy, Electrodynamics and the Role of Gravity 11: 'Drawn Through Life Backwards' 12: The Unyielding Past 13: The Emergence of Order 14: From Quantum Leaps to Schrodinger's Cat 15: Schrodinger's Time Traveller 16: Space, Time, and Quantum Gravity: Physics at the Frontier 17: The Time of Our Lives 18: Epilogue
1: Two Concepts of Time 2: Time and Space: a Marriage is Arranged 3: Taking Space-Time Seriously 4: From Flat to Curved Space-Time 5: Weaving the Cosmic Tapestry 6: Closed Timelike Curves: Science Fact or Science Fiction? 7: Classical Time Travel: the Toils of Paradox 8: Hamilton's Legacy: Physical Systems and their State Spaces 9: Time Asymmetry and the Second Law 10: Entropy, Electrodynamics and the Role of Gravity 11: 'Drawn Through Life Backwards' 12: The Unyielding Past 13: The Emergence of Order 14: From Quantum Leaps to Schrodinger's Cat 15: Schrodinger's Time Traveller 16: Space, Time, and Quantum Gravity: Physics at the Frontier 17: The Time of Our Lives 18: Epilogue
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