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EBOOK Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point:New Directions for the Physics of Time
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199839322
EAN: 505AD0DAEB
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Stron: 320
Data wydania: 1996
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New Directions for the Physics of Time
Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future        and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the        world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light        these great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original        way.Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Price shows that, for over a        century, most physicists have thought about problems of time in the wrong way.          Misled by the human perspective from within time, which distorts and exaggerates the        differences between past and future, they have fallen victim to what Price calls the        "e;double standard fallacy"e;: proposed explanations of the difference between the past        and the future turn out to rely on a difference which has been slipped in at the        beginning, when the physicists themselves treat the past and future in different        ways. To avoid this fallacy, Price argues, we need to overcome our natural tendency        to think about the past and the future differently. We need to imagine a point        outside time--an Archimedean "e;view from nowhen"e;--from which to observe time in an        unbiased way.Time's Arrow and Archimedes'Point presents an innovative and        controversial view of time and contemporary physics. In this exciting book, Price        urges physicists, philosophers, and anyone who has ever pondered the mysteries of        time to look at the world from the fresh perspective of Archimedes' Point and gain a        deeper understanding of ourselves, the universe around us, and our own place in        time.

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