Nature of Time

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Flood is Emeritus Fellow and a member of the Continuing Education Department at Kellogg College, Oxford, and has been a Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. Michael Lockwood is an editor of The Nature of Time published by Wiley. Klappentext "An excellent introduction to modern thinking on an age-old mystery".--John Gribbin! Physics. The contributors include philosophers! physicists! and mathematicians. Zusammenfassung Many philosophers! theologians! physicists and mathematicians have speculated on the nature of time. Recent scientific work is said to explain why time runs forward from past to future. But time still contains many mysteries - black holes! big bangs! asymmetries and relativities! arrows and loops.

Product details

• Authors: R Flood, Raymond (Oxford University) Lockwood Flood, Raymond Lockwood Flood
• Assisted by: Raymond Flood (Editor), Raymond (Oxford University) Flood (Editor), Michael Lockwood (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.1989
• EAN: 9780631165781
• ISBN: 978-0-631-16578-1
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works