Now: The Physics of TimeFrom the celebrated author of the best-selling Physics for Future Presidents comes “a provocative, strongly argued book on the fundamental nature of time” (Lee Smolin). You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? "Now" has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine to Einstein and beyond. In Now, eminent physicist Richard A. Muller takes up the challenge. He begins with remarkably clear explanations of relativity, entropy, entanglement, the Big Bang, and more, setting the stage for his own revolutionary theory of time, one that makes testable predictions. Muller’s monumental work will spark major debate about the most fundamental assumptions of our universe, and may crack one of physics’ longest-standing enigmas. |
Contents
The Leaping | |
Contradictions and Paradoxes | |
Lightspeed Limit Lightspeed Loophole | |
Imaginary Time | |
The End of Time | |
Throwing Entropy under the | |
Alternative Arrows | |
A Cat Both Dead and Alive | |
Tickling the Quantum Ghost | |
Einstein Is Spooked | |
Backward Time Travel Observed | |
Beyond Physics | |
To Infinity and Beyond | |
BROKEN ARROW | |
An Arrow of Confusion | |
Demystifying Entropy | |
Mystifying Entropy | |
Time Explained | |
Our Unlikely Universe | |
The Universe Erupts | |
Cogito Ergo | |
Free Will | |
The 4D Big Bang | |
The Math of Relativity | |
Time and Energy | |
Proof That Is Irrational | |
Physics and | |