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The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
Dutton Adult
January 2010
On Sale: January 7, 2010
448 pages
ISBN: 0525951334
EAN: 9780525951339
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome
vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a
simple question: Why does time move forward? Time moves forward, not backward-everyone knows you can't
unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest
young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a
doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and
other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll
argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the
past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before
the Big Bang itself-a period modern cosmology of which
Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are
going out into realms that make the theory of relativity
seem like child's play. Carroll's scenario is not only
elegant, it's laid out in the same easy-to- understand
language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the
most popular physics blog on the Net. From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of
theoretical physics to explore how properties of spacetime
before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we
experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we
live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes
in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time
running in the opposite direction. It's an ambitious,
fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale,
one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters
like Elegant Universe and A Brief History of Time.
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