From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
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"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world. The Washington Post - Justin Moyer Sean Carroll…does his best to make the arcane accessible…Though he exiles much of the math to an appendix, Carroll keeps it real, getting at the complex guts of cutting-edge cosmology
Prologue The nature of time, the importance of entropy, and the role of cosmology 1Pt. 1 Time, Experience, and the Universe1 The Past Is Present Memory 92 The Heavy Hand of Entropy 263 The Beginning and End of Time 44Pt. 2 Time In Einstein's Universe4 Time Is Personal 675 Time Is Flexible 826 Looping Through Time 93Pt. 3 Entropy and Time's Arrow7 Running Time Backward 1198 Entropy and Disorder 1439 Information and Life 17910 Recurrent Nightmares 20211 Quantum Time 228Pt. 4 From the Kitchen to the Multiverse12 Black Holes: The Ends of Time 25913 The life of the Universe 28714 Inflation and the Multiverse 31515 The Past Through Tomorrow 33916 Epilogue 366Appendix Math 377Notes 385Bibliography 411Acknowledgments 421Index 423
