Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide

Author: Craig Callender

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  • : 9781848311206
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  • : July 2010
  • : 168mm X 118mm
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  • : December 2023
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  • : Ralph Edney
  • : English
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Description

Introducing Time traces the history of time from Augustine's suggestion that there is no time, to the flowing time of Newton, the conventional time of Poincare, the static time of Einstein, and then back, full circle, to the idea that there is no time in quantum gravity.


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Author description

Craig Callander teaches philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Ralph Edney is a well-established graphic artist whose other introducing titles include Relativity.