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Book Synopsis
Presents an innovative view of time and contemporary physics. The author urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has ever pondered the paradoxes of time to look at the world from a fresh perspective, and throws light on some of the great mysteries of the universe.

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splendidly provocative ... enjoy it as a feast for the imagination * Sunday Times *
a useful addition to the literature on time, particularly as it reveals the influence of modern science on the way a philosopher thinks * New Scientist *
the author has done physicists a great service in laying out so clearly and critically the nature of the various time-asymmetry problems of physics * John Barrow, Nature *

Table of Contents
The View from Nowhen; More Apt to Be Lost than Got: The Lessons of the Second Law; New light on The Arrow of Radiation; Arrows and Error in Contemporary Cosmology; Innocence and Symmetry in Microphysics; In Search of the Third Arrow; Convention Objectified and the Past Unlocked; Einstein's Issue: The Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory; The Case for Advanced Action; Overview.

Times Arrow and Archimedes Point

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 10 September 1997
      ISBN-13 9780195117981
      978-0195117981
      ISBN-10 0195117980
      Also in:
      Western philosophy from c 1800 Science & Nature Quantum physics Science: general issues

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presents an innovative view of time and contemporary physics. The author urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has ever pondered the paradoxes of time to look at the world from a fresh perspective, and throws light on some of the great mysteries of the universe.

      Trade Review
      splendidly provocative ... enjoy it as a feast for the imagination * Sunday Times *
      a useful addition to the literature on time, particularly as it reveals the influence of modern science on the way a philosopher thinks * New Scientist *
      the author has done physicists a great service in laying out so clearly and critically the nature of the various time-asymmetry problems of physics * John Barrow, Nature *

      Table of Contents
      The View from Nowhen; More Apt to Be Lost than Got: The Lessons of the Second Law; New light on The Arrow of Radiation; Arrows and Error in Contemporary Cosmology; Innocence and Symmetry in Microphysics; In Search of the Third Arrow; Convention Objectified and the Past Unlocked; Einstein's Issue: The Puzzle of Contemporary Quantum Theory; The Case for Advanced Action; Overview.

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