From Eternity to Here
The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 26, 2010
"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang.
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- Who it’s for
- A lucid, idea-forward look at time that reads like an argument you want to keep following.
- Genres
- Time (Science), Cosmology, Quantum Theory
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, October 26, 2010
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"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious.
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One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.
Time, Explained
A lucid, idea-forward look at time that reads like an argument you want to keep following.
Come here for
- time, history, and philosophy in one clean line
- accessible explanations with enough layers to chew on
Expect
- insight over plot
- part reference, part sustained read
Where it sits
| Time (Science) | 63% |
|---|---|
| Cosmology | 62% |
| Quantum Theory | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Cosmology
- Quantum Theory
- Time (Science)
- Authors
- Sean Carroll
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- October 26, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Cosmology