Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a year was, or asked ourselves when now happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.
- ISBN10 0684837056
- ISBN13 9780684837055
- Publish Date 17 August 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 January 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Imprint The Free Press
- Edition Free Press ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English