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The labyrinth of time : introducing the universe / Michael Lockwood.

By: Lockwood, Michael.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: vii, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0199249954.Subject(s): Space and timeDDC classification: 530.1
Contents:
1. Two concepts of time - 2. Time and space: a marriage is arranged - 3. Taking space - time seriously - 4. From flat to curved space - time - 5. Weaving the cosmic tapestry - 6. Closed timelike curves: science fact or science fiction? - 7. Classical time travel : the toils of paradox - 8. Hamilton's legacy: physical systems and their state spaces - 9. Time asymmetry and the second law - 10. Entropy, electrodynamics, and the role of gravity - 11. ' Drawn through life backwards' - 12. The unyielding past - 13. The emergence of order - 14. From quantum jumps to Schrodinger's cat - 15. Schrodinger's time-traveller - 16. Space, time, and quantum gravity: Physics at the frontier - 17. The time of our lives.
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Includes bibliographic resources (p. [383]-397) and index.

1. Two concepts of time - 2. Time and space: a marriage is arranged - 3. Taking space - time seriously - 4. From flat to curved space - time - 5. Weaving the cosmic tapestry - 6. Closed timelike curves: science fact or science fiction? - 7. Classical time travel : the toils of paradox - 8. Hamilton's legacy: physical systems and their state spaces - 9. Time asymmetry and the second law - 10. Entropy, electrodynamics, and the role of gravity - 11. ' Drawn through life backwards' - 12. The unyielding past - 13. The emergence of order - 14. From quantum jumps to Schrodinger's cat - 15. Schrodinger's time-traveller - 16. Space, time, and quantum gravity: Physics at the frontier - 17. The time of our lives.