From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of TimeA 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. Watch a Video
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Contents
THE BEGINNING AND END OF TIME | |
PART TWO TIME IN EINSTEINS UNIVERSE | |
TIME IS PERSONAL | |
TIME IS FLEXIBLE | |
LOOPING THROUGH TIME | |
RECURRENT NIGHTMARES | |
QUANTUM TIME | |
PART FOUR FROM THE KITCHEN TO THE MULTIVERSE | |
THE ENDS OF TIME | |
THE LIFE OF THE UNIVERSE | |
INFLATION AND THE MULTIVERSE | |
THE PAST THROUGH TOMORROW | |
EPILOGUE | |
PART THREE ENTROPY AND TIMES ARROW | |
RUNNING TIME BACKWARD | |
ENTROPY AND DISORDER | |
INFORMATION AND LIFE | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
Acknowledgements | |
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