Travels in four dimensions
Subtitle: the enigmas of space and time
By: Robin Le Poidevin.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Space and time
Description: "Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience, and yet they are also the most puzzling." "Robin Le Poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimulating guide through these and many other puzzles and paradoxes. Drawing on a variety of examples from science, history, and literature, he gives a vivid sense of the difficulties raised by our ordinary ideas of space and time, and equips us to think about these problems for ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.

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