Introducing time / Craig Callender and Ralph Edney.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Introducing (Thriplow, England)Publisher: London : Icon ; 2010Distributor: Lanham, Md. : Distributed to the trade in the USA by National Book Network, 2010Description: 172 pages : illustrations ; 17 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848311206
  • 1848311206
Other title:
  • Subtitle on cover: Graphic guide
Subject(s): Summary: "Traces the history of time from Augustine to the flowing time of Newton, the 'conventional time' of Poincaré, Einstein's static time, and then to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity"--P. [4] of cover.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB209 .C35 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000039020
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB209 .C35 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000039194

Previous edition: 2001.

"What is time? The fifth-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him. Introducing time tackles this question and dares go where Augustine would not. It traces the history of time from Augustine's suggestion that there is not time, to the flowing time of Newton, the conventional time of Poincaré, the static time of Einstein, and then back, full circle, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Traces the history of time from Augustine to the flowing time of Newton, the 'conventional time' of Poincaré, Einstein's static time, and then to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity"--P. [4] of cover.

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The Science and philosophy of time explained in simple terms in the format of a 'graphic novel'(comic book)

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