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.

Author
Ben-Naim, Arieh, 1934- [Browse]
Format
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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    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    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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