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- catalog abstract "Examines the consequences of Einstein's relativity theory, exploring the mystery of time and considering black holes, time travel, the existence of God, and the nature of the universe.".
- catalog alternative "Abouttime".
- catalog contributor b7769162.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Big bang and what happened before it -- Older than the universe? -- Einstein's greatest mistake -- Two-timing the cosmos -- Einstein's greatest triumph? -- Handwriting of God -- Did the big bang ever happen? -- What's a few billion years among friends? -- Repulsive problem -- Loitering universe -- Quantum time -- Time to tunnel -- Watched kettles -- Erasing the past -- Spooky signals and psychic particles -- Faster than light? -- Time vanishes! -- Imaginary time -- Two cultures revisited -- How time got started -- Hartle-Hawking theory -- Imaginary clocks -- Arrow of time -- Catching the wave -- Signals from the future -- Matter of time reversal -- Particle that can tell the time -- Lopsided universe -- Backwards in time -- Into reverse -- Thinking backwards -- Antiworlds -- Winding the clock back -- Hawking's greatest mistake -- Time for everybody -- Time travel: Fact or fantasy? -- Signaling the past -- Visiting the past -- Black-hole time machines -- Wormholes and strings -- ".
- catalog description "Examines the consequences of Einstein's relativity theory, exploring the mystery of time and considering black holes, time travel, the existence of God, and the nature of the universe.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-294) and index.".
- catalog description "Paradox -- But what time is it now? -- Can time really flow? -- Myth of passage -- Does the arrow of time fly? -- Why now? -- Experimenting with time -- How long does the present last? -- Now you see it, now you don't -- Filling in time -- Subjective time -- Back door to our minds -- Unfinished revolution -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Prologue -- Very brief history of time -- Whose time is it anyway? -- Quest for eternity -- Escape from time -- Cyclic worlds and the eternal return -- Newton's time and the clockwork universe -- Einstein's time -- Is the universe dying? -- Return of the eternal return -- Start of it all -- It happens when it happens -- Time for a change -- Gift from heaven -- Goodbye to the ether -- Timely solution -- Interlude -- Stretching time -- Puzzle of the twins -- Goodbye to the present -- Time is money -- Timescape -- Timewarps -- Light barrier -- Perpetual motion and the uphill struggle -- Why time runs faster in space -- Clock in the box -- Best clock in the universe -- Echo that arrived late -- Going up in the world -- Black holes: Gateways to the end of time -- Warp factor infinity -- Dark mystery -- Penetrating the magic circle -- Singular problem -- Beyond the end of time -- Are they really out there? -- Beginning of time: When exactly was it? -- Great clock in the sky -- ".
- catalog extent "316 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "About time.".
- catalog identifier "0671799649".
- catalog isFormatOf "About time.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "About time.".
- catalog subject "530.1/1 20".
- catalog subject "Astrophysics.".
- catalog subject "Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.".
- catalog subject "QC173.59.S65 D37 1995".
- catalog subject "Relativity (Physics)".
- catalog subject "Space and time.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Big bang and what happened before it -- Older than the universe? -- Einstein's greatest mistake -- Two-timing the cosmos -- Einstein's greatest triumph? -- Handwriting of God -- Did the big bang ever happen? -- What's a few billion years among friends? -- Repulsive problem -- Loitering universe -- Quantum time -- Time to tunnel -- Watched kettles -- Erasing the past -- Spooky signals and psychic particles -- Faster than light? -- Time vanishes! -- Imaginary time -- Two cultures revisited -- How time got started -- Hartle-Hawking theory -- Imaginary clocks -- Arrow of time -- Catching the wave -- Signals from the future -- Matter of time reversal -- Particle that can tell the time -- Lopsided universe -- Backwards in time -- Into reverse -- Thinking backwards -- Antiworlds -- Winding the clock back -- Hawking's greatest mistake -- Time for everybody -- Time travel: Fact or fantasy? -- Signaling the past -- Visiting the past -- Black-hole time machines -- Wormholes and strings -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Paradox -- But what time is it now? -- Can time really flow? -- Myth of passage -- Does the arrow of time fly? -- Why now? -- Experimenting with time -- How long does the present last? -- Now you see it, now you don't -- Filling in time -- Subjective time -- Back door to our minds -- Unfinished revolution -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Prologue -- Very brief history of time -- Whose time is it anyway? -- Quest for eternity -- Escape from time -- Cyclic worlds and the eternal return -- Newton's time and the clockwork universe -- Einstein's time -- Is the universe dying? -- Return of the eternal return -- Start of it all -- It happens when it happens -- Time for a change -- Gift from heaven -- Goodbye to the ether -- Timely solution -- Interlude -- Stretching time -- Puzzle of the twins -- Goodbye to the present -- Time is money -- Timescape -- Timewarps -- Light barrier -- Perpetual motion and the uphill struggle -- Why time runs faster in space -- Clock in the box -- Best clock in the universe -- Echo that arrived late -- Going up in the world -- Black holes: Gateways to the end of time -- Warp factor infinity -- Dark mystery -- Penetrating the magic circle -- Singular problem -- Beyond the end of time -- Are they really out there? -- Beginning of time: When exactly was it? -- Great clock in the sky -- ".
- catalog title "About time : Einstein's unfinished revolution / Paul Davies.".
- catalog title "Abouttime".
- catalog type "text".