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

Lestienne, Remy; Neher, E. C.

 
9780252064272: The Children of Time: Causality, Entropy, Becoming (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 890)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252064275 ISBN 13: 9780252064272
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1995

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"A work of scientific substance and critical wisdom, developed in
the 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 through
Hawking's A Brief History of Time and now have it collecting dust
on our bookshelves. Well written, thought-provoking, and, most important,
understandable." -- Michael Epstein, analytical spectroscopist/chemist,
National Institute of Standards and Technology
What is time? Does it really pass? These and other fascinating questions
about the nature of time animate a continuing philosophical and scientific
debate. In this popular French book, now available for the first time
in English; my Lestienne moves to make the bewildering concepts
of time accessible--and interesting. He uses Galileo, Newton, Einstein,
and others to demonstrate how the concepts of causality and entropy became
so pervasive that they eventually were substituted for time itself. He
also shows how recent advances in astronomy, particle physics, developmental
life sciences, and the neurosciences are helping to shape a new philosophical
vision of time.

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'This is the book for those of us who couldn't wade completely through Hawking's A Brief History of Time and now have it collecting dust on our bookshelves. Well, written, thought-provoking, and, most important, understandable.' - Michael Epstein, analytical spectroscopist/chemist, National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252064275
ISBN 13 
9780252064272
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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Breda
4831 GR
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