THE JANUS POINT

What is time? Why is the past so different from the present and the future?This simple question is in fact one of the deepest, most long-standing problems in physics. None of the known laws of the universe can fully explain it. In The Janus Point, Julian Barbour p resents a bold new thesis and a possible solution, with radical implications for our understanding of the Big Bang and the nature of time itself.His argument rests on two vital insights. The first is that the most common explanation for time entropy is flawed: firstly, b...[Llegir més]