Table of Contents

PART ONE: TIME AND ESCHATOLOGY
Life After Death
The Curse on ′Cyclic′ Time
Creation, Immortality and the New Physics
PART TWO: TIME IN CURRENT PHYSICS
Newton′s Secret
In Einstein′s Shadow
Broken Time
Chance, Chaos, Complexity
Time Travel
PART THREE: DE-THEOLOGISING PHYSICS
The Eleven Pictures of Time
The Tilt in the Arrow of Time
PART FOUR: TIME AND VALUES
Time as Money
The Transformation of Time in Tradition
Revaluation of All Values

About the Author

C K Raju is Professor and Head of the Centre for Computer Science, MCRP University, Bhopal. He is also an Editorial Fellow with the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, under the aegis of the Centre for Studies in Civilisations, New Delhi. He has been a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, an Affiliated Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and an editor of the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. He has taught and conducted pioneering research in mathematics for several years, besides working with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in building India’s first supercomputer, Param. An outstanding scientist, his previous publications include Time: Towards a Consistent Theory (1994) which put forward a new system of equations for physics.