Time's Arrows
Subtitle: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: January 7, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780671617660
Subjects: Time; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Science / General
First sentence: SOME QUESTIONS SEEM TOO trivial to merit serious consideration, but often these are the very questions that become most puzzling when we examine them in detail.
Description: This exploration of Western attitudes toward time traces these attitudes from ancient Greece through the Christian Middle Ages, with nearly half of the exposition devoted to modern scientific concepts, including relativity, biological time, the "direction" of time, and cosmic time
Table of contents: title: What Is Time?
label: 1; title: Cyclical Time and Linear Time
label: 2; title: Abstract Time
label: 3; title: Calculus and the Idea of Determinism
label: 4; title: The Discovery of  the Past and the Idea of Progress
label: 5; title: The Age of the World
label: 6; title: Entropy and the Direction of Time
label: 7; title: The Five Arrows of Time
label: 8; title: Relativistic Tme
label: 9; title: Cosmic Time
label: 10; title: The Beginning and End of Time
label: 11; title: What Is Time?
label: 12; title: Bibliography; title: Index