Time reborn : from the crisis in physics to the future of the universe /
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Weight : the expulsion of time. Falling ; The disappearance of time ; A game of catch ; Doing physics in a box ; Relativity and timelessness ; Quantum cosmology and the end of time
- pt. 2. Light : time reborn. Interlude: Einstein's discontent ; The cosmological fallacy ; The cosmological challenge ; Principles for a news cosmology ; The evolution of laws ; Quantum mechanics and the liberation of the atom ; The battle between relativity and the quantum ; Time reborn from relativity ; The emergence of space ; The life and death of the universe ; Time reborn from heat and light ; Infinite space or infinite time? ; The future of time.