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The briefest history of time : the history of histories of time and the misconstrued association between entropy and time / Arieh Ben-Naim, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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Ben-Naim, Arieh, 1934-
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Manuscript, Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Jersey : World Scientific, [2016]
©2016
Description
xix, 244 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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QC173.59.S65 B46 2016
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Space and time
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Time
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Entropy
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Second law of thermodynamics
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Summary note
"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"-- Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index.
Contents
What is time?
What is a history of something?
The briefest history of space
The briefest history of time
Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
The history of the histories of time.
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ISBN
9789814749848 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9814749842 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9789814749855 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9814749850 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016000584
OCLC
935676682
Other standard number
99969848956
RCP
C - S
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