The briefest history of time
Subtitle: the history of histories of time and the misconstrued association between entropy and time
By: Arieh Ben-Naim, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9789814749848; 9789814749855
Subjects: Entropy; Space and time; Second law of thermodynamics; Time
Description: "The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well as the lengthiest) history of time can be described in one or two pages. The second purpose of the book is to show that neither entropy, nor the Second Law of Thermodynamics has anything to do with time. The third purpose is to educate the lay reader how to read popular sciences books, critically. Towards this goal, detailed reviews of four books on time are presented"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: What is time?; title: What is a history of something?; title: The briefest history of space; title: The briefest history of time; title: Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics; title: The history of the histories of time.