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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (Paperback)
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Short Description for From Eternity to HereOne of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life.
Full description- Publisher: Plume Books
- Published: 26 October 2010
- Format: Paperback 438 pages
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- Categories: Cosmology & The Universe | Time (chronology), Time Systems & Standards | Physics
- ISBN 13: 9780452296541 ISBN 10: 0452296544
- Sales rank: 58,941
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Entropy and Time
We feel time but do we really understand it? The arrow of time is one of the properties of our universe that is still under debate.
With this book, Sean Carroll was able to do for entropy and the arrow of time, the same that Brian Greene did, with his The Elegant Universe, for string theory: raise relevant questions and give both generally accepted answers and his own personal views, in a way that was both fascinating and easy to understand.
Entropy concepts are very well explained and I liked the courage that the author had in placing a few (simple) formulas in the book, where it did perfect sense. I just think that the author should have treated the Inflationary model with a little bit more detail (fortunately, I had read Alan Guth's The Inflationary Universe before, so that was not a problem to me). Nevertheless, I think this is an almost perfect physics book. by Rui Antunes
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