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| The End of Certainty | 
 enlarge | Author: Ilya Prigogine
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0684837056
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.11
EAN: 9780684837055
Publication Date: August 17, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Free Press, 1997, Hardcover, Dust Jacket, Fine/Fine condition, remainder mark, unread, new copy. 228 pages.
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Amazon.com Review
In this intellectually challenging book, Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine tackles some of the difficult questions that bedevil physicists trying to provide an explanation for the world we observe. How is it, for instance, that basic principles of quantum mechanics--which lack any differentiation between forward and backward directions in time--can explain a world with an "arrow of time" headed unambiguously forward? And how do we escape classical physics' assertion that the world is deterministic? In a sometimes mathematical and frequently mind-bending book, Prigogine explores deterministic chaos, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and even cosmology and the origin of the universe in an attempt to reach an explanation that can reconcile physical laws with subjective reality.
Product Description
Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.
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