The End of Certainty
by Ilya Prigogine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0684837056
- ISBN 13
- 9780684837055
- Seller
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Highland, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.
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- Bookseller
- True Oak Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TOB217-32680-A-0.50
- Title
- The End of Certainty
- Author
- Ilya Prigogine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Free Press Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0684837056
- ISBN 13
- 9780684837055
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- 0684837056
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