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THE END OF CERTAINTY
TIME, CHAOS AND THE NEW LAWS OF NATURE |
| By: |
Ilya Prigogine |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£27.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0684837056 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780684837055 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Pub. date: |
4 August, 1997 |
| Edition: |
Free Press ed |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
The Nobel laureate and founder of chaos theory challenges the accepted laws of nature, explaining why Einstein's belief that time is merely an illusion is incorrect. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The Free Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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