PAUL DAVIES is Director of the Beyond Center at Arizona State University and the bestselling author of more than twenty books. He won the 1995 Templeton Prize for his work on the deeper meaning of science. His books include About Time, The Fifth Miracle, and The Mind of God.
Los Angeles Times Elegantly written and comprehensible, full of
wonder and lucid explanation.
Frederic Golden San Francisco Chronicle A stimulating -- indeed,
timely -- read.
Michio Kaku author of Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through
Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension It's about
time someone wrote the definitive history of time...I can think of
no one better than Paul Davies...Einstein himself would have been
pleased.
Will St. John Detroit Free Press The fun here is in the journey and
Davies is an entertaining guide.
Australian physicist and popular science writer Davies (God and the New Physics) takes readers on a mind-expanding journey as he explores the bizarre properties of Einstein's relative, flexible time; modern cosmology's assertion that time originated billions of years ago in the Big Bang; recent efforts to topple that theory; and paradoxes opened up by the prospect of time travel, which, according to Davies, is a scientific possibility. Making technical concepts accessible, Davies surveys attempts by Stephen Hawking, Murray Gell-Mann and others to reconcile Einstein's ideas with quantum physics. Among the time-bending phenomena he investigates are black holes, collapsed stars that may abolish time at their centers; kaons, subatomic particles attuned to the expansion of the universe; and antiworlds, hypothetical neighboring regions of space-time in which time flows backward. The author's speculations on causality, God and eternity make this a rewarding tour de force for nonspecialists. Illustrations. (Mar.)
Los Angeles Times Elegantly written and comprehensible, full
of wonder and lucid explanation.
Frederic Golden San Francisco Chronicle A stimulating --
indeed, timely -- read.
Michio Kaku author of Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through
Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension It's
about time someone wrote the definitive history of time...I can
think of no one better than Paul Davies...Einstein himself would
have been pleased.
Will St. John Detroit Free Press The fun here is in the
journey and Davies is an entertaining guide.
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