About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Author(s): P.C.W. Davies
Looks at the highly challenging, scientific problems currently surrounding the question of time - the age of the universe, the relative nature of time and faster-than-light communication.
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Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, now based in South Australia. He is the author of some twenty award-winning books, including The Mind of God and The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin of Life.
A very brief history of time; time for a change; timewarps; black holes - gateways to the end of time; the beginning of time - when exactly was it?; Einstein's greatest triumph?; quantum time; imaginary time; the arrow of time; backwards in time; time travel - fact or fantasy?; but what time is it now?; experimenting with time; the unfinished revolution.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : pengui
- : 0.239
- : 25 April 1996
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : P.C.W. Davies
- : Paperback
- : 496
- : English
- : 530.11
- : 320
- : b&w diagrams, notes, bibliography, index