About time : Einstein's unfinished revolution / Paul Davies
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- Davies, P. C. W. (Paul Charles William), 1946-
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- 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed.
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- New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2005
- 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 9780671799649
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- Machine derived contents note: CONTENTS Preface
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: A Very Brief History of Time
- Whose time is it anyway?
- The quest for eternity
- Escape from time
- Cyclic worlds and the eternal return
- Newton's time and the clockwork universe
- Einstein's time
- Is the universe dying?
- The return of the eternal return
- The start of it all
- It happens when it happens
- Chapter 2: Time for a Change
- A gift from heaven
- Goodbye to the ether
- A timely solution
- Interlude
- Stretching time
- The puzzle of the twins
- Goodbye to the present
- Time is money
- Timescape
- Chapter 3: Timewarps
- The light barrier
- Perpetual motion and the uphill struggle
- Why time runs faster in space
- The clock in the box
- The best clock in the universe
- The echo that arrived late
- Going up in the world
- Chapter 4: Black Holes: Gateways to the End of Time
- Warp factor infinity
- A dark mystery
- Penetrating the magic circle
- A singular problem
- Beyond the end of time
- Are they really out there?
- Chapter 5: The Beginning of Time: When Exactly Was It?
- The great clock in the sky
- The big bang, and what happened before it
- Older than the universe?
- Einstein's greatest mistake
- Two-timing the cosmos
- Chapter 6: Einstein's Greatest Triumph?
- The handwriting of God
- Did the big bang ever happen?
- What's a few billion years among friends?
- A repulsive problem
- The loitering universe
- Chapter 7: Quantum Time
- Time to tunnel
- Watched kettles 166
- Erasing the past
- Spooky signals and psychic particles
- Faster than light?
- The time vanishes!
- Chapter 8: Imaginary Time
- The two cultures revisited
- How time got started
- The Hattie-Hawking theory
- Imaginary clocks
- Chapter 9. The Arrow of Time
- Catching the wave
- Signals from the future
- A matter of time reversal
- The particle that can tell the time
- The lopsided universe
- Chapter 10: Backwards in Time
- Into reverse
- Thinking backwards
- Antiworlds
- Winding the clock back
- Hawking's greatest mistake
- A time for everybody
- Chapter 11: Time Travel: Fact or Fantasy?
- Signaling the past
- Visiting the past
- Black-hole time machines
- Wormholes and strings
- Paradox
- Chapter 12: But What Time Is It Now?
- Can time really flow?
- The myth of passage
- Does the arrow of time fly?
- Why now?
- Chapter 13: Experimenting with Time
- How long does the present last?
- Now you see it, now you don't
- Filling in time
- Subjective time
- The back door to our minds
- Chapter 14: The Unfinished Revolution
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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- Originally published: Orion Productions, 1995.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [293]-294.
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