The Children of Time: Causality, Entropy, Becoming (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 890)

ISBN: 0252064275

Author: Lestienne, Remy

Condition: New

"A work of scientific substance and critical wisdom, developed inthe urbane idiom of a French scholar." -- J. T. Fraser, founder,International Society for the Study of Time"This is the book for those of us who couldn't wade completely throughHawking's A Brief History of Time and now have it collecting duston our bookshelves. Well written, thought-provoking, and, most important,understandable." -- Michael Epstein, analytical spectroscopist/chemist,National Institute of Standards and TechnologyWhat is time? Does it really pass? These and other fascinating questionsabout the nature of time animate a continuing philosophical and scientificdebate. In this popular French book, now available for the first timein English; my Lestienne moves to make the bewildering conceptsof time accessible--and interesting. He uses Galileo, Newton, Einstein,and others to demonstrate how the concepts of causality and entropy becameso pervasive that they eventually were substituted for time itself. Healso shows how recent advances in astronomy, particle physics, developmentallife sciences, and the neurosciences are helping to shape a new philosophicalvision of time.