Chronos : how time shapes our universe / Etienne Klein ; translated by Glenn Burney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Étienne, 1958-

Standardized Title:

Tactiques de cronos. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

xiii, 191 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Thunder's Mouth Press edition.

Other Title:

How time shapes our universe

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Thunder's Mouth, [2005]

Contents:

1 Does a Clock Speak for Itself? 1

2 The Word "Time"; or, Every Dictionary's Embarrassment 7

3 An Unnaturally Flowing River 15

4 The Time Before Chronos 19

5 The Stopping of Time; or, The Abolition of the World 23

6 Not Everything Passes with Time 27

7 Boredom; or, Time Exposed 33

8 What Makes Time Pass? 39

9 Eternal Recurrence; or, The Circle's Vices 45

10 Causality; or, The Impossible Tick-Tock 53

11 "Time Travels" and Other Uchronias 61

12 Antimatter; or, The End of the Trip 67

13 1905: "Now" Says Good-bye to the Universe 75

14 Does the Future Already Exist in the Future? 83

15 Is Time an Opportunist? 87

16 The Kaons Gang Turns Time Upside Down 97

17 2002: Does Cosmic Time Accelerate? 105

18 Some Time... Only from Time to Time? 111

19 Dance of the Superstrings and the Several-Steps Waltz 117

20 Theories Seeking Origin of Time, Desperately 125

21 Chronoclastic Spirit, Useful Watch 131

22 Endless Unfurling of the Present Instant 137

23 The Unconscious; or, Time without Flow 143

24 The Physicist, the Romantic, and the Jealous Type; or, The Dramas of Impossession 149

25 Has Physics Forgotten Death? 153.

Notes:

Originally published as Les tactiques de cronos, Editions Flammarion, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-191).

ISBN:

1560257083

OCLC:

62121863