About Time by Paul C.W. Davies
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Cover image of How to Build a Time Machine. * Does the universe have a beginning and an end? Paul Davies has worked in journalism for over 25 years, first editing gaming magazines and websites and now. Davies explores unanswered questions such as: In About Time, Paul Davies discusses the big bang theory, chaos theory, and the recent discovery that the universe appears to be younger than some of the objects in it, concluding that Einstein's theory provides only an incomplete understanding of the nature of time.
The eternal questions of science and religion were profoundly recast by Einstein's theory of relativity and its implications that time can be warped by motion and gravitation, and that it cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future. This bite-size volume for the nonscientist reviews fact and speculation concerning. Davies, Author Basic Books 20 (176p) ISBN 978-8-8.
An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal. Paul Davies, Author, Paul Davies, Author, P.