The End of CertaintySimon and Schuster, 17 d’ag. 1997 - 228 pàgines Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless. |
Continguts
Only an Illusion? | 57 |
From Probability to Irreversibility | 73 |
The Laws of Chaos | 89 |
Beyond Newtons Laws | 107 |
A Unified Formulation of Quantum Theory | 129 |
Our Dialogue with Nature | 153 |
A Narrow Path | 183 |
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