The End of Certainty

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.

Author: Ilya Prigogine
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 08/17/1997
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.75w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9780684837055