Time is a concept we all use every day to measure the passage of our days and lives without giving it much thought.Physics inherently does not limit time to going forward only, or to only one dimension, but it is treated that way since we do not understand time any other way. Could time have multidimensions, just like space has? What would it mean to move in multidimensional time? Can the expanded dimensions of time explain human consciousness?This book on multidimensional ti...

Curbside Consultation in Oculoplastics has been updated into a Second Edition!The Second Edition contains new questions and is completely updated!Curbside Consultation in Oculoplastics: 49 Clinical Questions, Second Edition contains new questions and brief, practical, evidence-based answers to the most frequently asked questions that are posed during a “curbside consultat...

Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and beyond. A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time covers subjects such as time and change, the experience of time, physical and metaphysical approaches to the nature of time, the direction of time, time travel, time and freedom of the will, and scientific and philosophical approaches to eternit...

The physicist and author of This Changes Everything presents an engaging inquiry into the origins of the universe and the beginning of time.In Time One, Colin Gillespie takes on the greatest scientific mystery of all time with the aid of a fictional detective. Approaching forty-seven classic philosophical problems as clues to the question of how the universe began, Gillespie connects the dots across centuries of philosophy, literature and religion...

We prepare for it each evening, and spend half our lives in its embrace, yet night retains its mysteries. In ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT, author and poet Christopher Dewdney takes readers on a fascinating journey through the nocturnal realm.Twelve chapters correspond to the twelve hours of an 'ideal' night, starting at 6pm and ending at 6am, and serve as points of departure for night's central themes; from sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, festivals of the night, ...

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light on some of the great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way. Price begins with the mystery of the arrow of time. Why, for example, does disorder always increase, as required by the second law of thermodynamics? ...

Exploring Existence sets forth on a profound exploration into the very heart of our existence, delving deep into the mysteries that define our being. This book is an attempt at guidance through us through the essential question: How can we fathom our own existence? But it does not halt at the obvious; it dares to venture into the depths of the perplexing.This journey endeavors to decipher these inquiries through the lens of cutting-edge science. However, let me be candid; I'm not s...

Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He investigates philosophical questions about past, present, and future, our experience of time, and the possibility of time travel. And he provides the most careful, lively, and up-to-date introduction to the physics of time and the structure of...

Do you truly believe that you are reading this by accident? Think carefully about what led you to this page. Think about the little decisions you made. Maybe they weren't your decisions at all. This story will let you know how we developed the means to bring you here. But that's only the beginning of the story. Since you may learn things you'd rather not know, read this story at your own risk.

The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time?Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original?In the last decade of the twentieth century a grou...

The full story of man’s attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Ussher’s confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescope’s images of a world 13 billion years old, with a starry cast of eccentrics, mystics, scientists and visonaries.The moment of the beginning of time is one of science’s Holy Grails, pursued by devotees and obsessives across the ages. Few were more committed than Bishop James Ussher who lost his sight i...

This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It describes the sizes of atoms and planets, quarks and galaxies, cells and sequoias. It is a romp through forty-five orders of magnitude from the smallest sub-nuclear particles we have measured, to the edge of the observed universe. It also looks at time, from the epic age of the cosmos to the fleeting lifetimes of ethereal particles. It is a narrativ...