The Arrow of Time

出版者:Fawcett

作者:Peter Coveney

页数:378

出版时间:1991-5-14

价格:USD 22.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780449906309

具体描述

Not to be confused with Richard Morris's Time's Arrows ( LJ 3/15/85) and Stephen Jay Gould's Time's Arrows, Time's Cycles ( LJ 3/15/87), this is the first American edition of a book originally published in Great Britain. Coveney and Highfield--a scientist and journalist, respectively--demonstrate how the everyday perception that time moves in one direction is consistent with advanced scientific theory. At the center of their theory is an intriguing interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics, which describes the forces of entropy. The authors show that this concept has broad relevance in such fields as cosmology, evolution, and the emerging science of chaos. Not for the merely curious, this book cites Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time ( LJ 4/15/88) and James Gleick's Chaos ( LJ 8/87) and will appeal to readers with the relatively high level of scientific sophistication of those books. Generalists will find the aforementioned book by Morris to be more approachable.

读后感

正寒老弟，你这是夸奖还是讽刺。――请允许我详加胡扯。 很多人都想过要回到（无忧无虑的）童年，但是他们没有一个想更进一步，回到（无忧无虑的）子宫的。（你不要骂人好不好？――装迷不能是一会的；我们继续胡扯。） 充分假设：我们可以像转换房间一样，可以随便跃迁到过去...

正寒老弟，你这是夸奖还是讽刺。――请允许我详加胡扯。 很多人都想过要回到（无忧无虑的）童年，但是他们没有一个想更进一步，回到（无忧无虑的）子宫的。（你不要骂人好不好？――装迷不能是一会的；我们继续胡扯。） 充分假设：我们可以像转换房间一样，可以随便跃迁到过去...