The arrow of time : the quest to solve science's greatest mystery

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The arrow of time : the quest to solve science's greatest mystery

Peter Coveney and Roger Highfield ; foreword by Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Laureat

Flamingo, 1991

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First published in Great Britain by W.H. Allen, 1990

Includes bibliography (p.350-359) and index

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Description

In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the past to the future. The author's challenge to scientific preconceptions about the irreversibility of time is designed to link apparently irreconcilable features of science, from Einstein's obsession with causality to chaos theory, from the cause of jet lag to the Monday morning feeling.

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  • NCID
    BA25735168
  • ISBN
    • 0006544622
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    378 p.
  • Size
    20cm
  • Classification
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