Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132766 in Books
• Published on: 1991-11-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Synopsis
In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the past to the future. The author's challenge to scientific preconceptions about the irreversibility of time is designed to link apparently irreconcilable features of science, from Einstein's obsession with causality to chaos theory, from the cause of jet lag to the Monday morning feeling.

Customer Reviews

An excellent grounding in the world of Physics
If you've ever wanted to know about Einstein's Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Chaos and Thermodynamics then this book's for you. Pulling all these topics together by trying to see what they can tell us about 'Time', this book is a highly enjoyable read and IS suited to the beginner. My only reservation is that it is over ten years old now, and therefore misses out the recent developments in the world of Physics.

I bought this book thinking I was going to have to attack it with a determined concentration (like 'A Brief History of Time') half expecting not to finish it, but once I'd picked it up I couldn't put it down. It reads like a good TV documentary and doesn't dumb it down. In fact, it would make an excellent TV series. How about it....?

Great, not for a beginner though
This book explains clearly and consisely how time may or may not work in our universe. However, if you want to learn more about this subject it may not be the wisest book to begin with. While it has an introduction to astrophysics, its still quite complex and confusing at times. However, its totally fascinating.