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Timeless reality : symmetry, simplicity, and multiple universes / Victor J. Stenger.
Van Pelt Library QC173.59.T53 S74 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stenger, Victor J., 1935-2014.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time reversal.
- Quantum theory.
- Physical Description:
- 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- A professor of physics and astronomy studies a theory that time is reversible, and explains how physicists have generally been reluctant to accept the reversibility of time because of the implied causal paradoxes. Illustrations.
- Contents:
- 1. Atoms and Forms 21
- 2. The Whole is Equal to the Sum of Its Particles 43
- 3. The Death of Absolute Now 67
- 4. Three Arrows of Time 89
- 5. The Quantum Domain 104
- 6. Paradoxes and Interpretations 126
- 7. Taming Infinity 152
- 8. The Timeless Quantum 182
- 9. Modeling Matter 209
- 10. Dreams of Fields 240
- 11. Particle Reality 253
- 12. Global Simplicity and Local Complexity 276
- 13. The Natural and the Supernatural 306
- 14. Truth or Consequences 333
- 15. Einstein's Building Blocks 345.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-381) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1573928593
- OCLC:
- 44676068
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