The End of Certainty - Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature (Hardcover, Free Press ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	The Free Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1997
First published:	August 1997
Authors:	Ilya Prigogine
Dimensions:	220 x 150 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	228
Edition:	Free Press ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-684-83705-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-684-83705-6
Barcode:	9780684837055

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