About time
Einstein's unfinished revolution
by Paul Davies · first published 1995
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The traditional association between time and creation is at the heart of science, cosmology, and religion. When scientists began to explore the implications of Einstein's time for the universe as a whole, they discovered that time is elastic, and can be warped by rapid motion or gravitation, that time cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future, nor does time flow in the popular sense. And they made one of the most important discoveries in the history of human thought: that time, and hence all of physical reality, must have had a definite origin in the past. There can be bot
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No, it's an attribute of time itself, not mechanical clock issues. I _highly_ recommend the book "About Time" http://www.amazon.com/About-Time-Einsteins-Unfinished-Revolu...
on “How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (2009)” ↗About Time by Paul Davies is amazing! http://www.amazon.com/About-Time-Einsteins-Unfinished-Revolu...
on “What’s Inside a Black Hole?” ↗…Carroll[1] Lost in Math - Sabine Hossenfelder[2] The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg[3] Hyperspace - Michio Kaku[4] Not Even Wrong - Peter Woit[5] The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin[6] About Time - Paul Davies[7] Time Reborn - Lee Smolin[8] The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene[9] The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene[10] The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene[11] Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity…
on “Ask HN: Recommended Books on Physics?” ↗You might enjoy Time Reborn[1] by Lee Smolin or About Time[2] by Paul Davies. Note that the latter book is fairly old now (from 1996 or so) and I'm not sure how well it holds up now. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Reborn-Lee-Smolin/dp/0544245598 [2]: https://www.amazon.com/About-Time-Einsteins-Unfinished-Revol...
on “John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (2017)” ↗…Ramanujan - Robert Kanigel Lost in Math - Sabine Hossenfelder The First Three Minutes - Steven Weinberg Hyperspace - Michio Kaku Not Even Wrong - Peter Woit The Trouble With Physics - Lee Smolin About Time - Paul Davies Time Reborn - Lee Smolin The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search…
on “Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?” ↗…entanglement to achieve FTL communication. Personally this is one of my favorite learning methods, since you go through the motions of a discoverer rather than getting the finished thought served. The book "About Time" (Davies 1995) is written like this, and I love it :)
on “How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity” ↗