Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it
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Table of contents :
Preface
Introduction
PART I
Weight: The Expulsion of Time
1. Falling
2. The Disappearance of Time
3. A Game of Catch
4. Doing Physics in a Box
5. The Expulsion of Novelty and Surprise
6. Relativity and Timelessness
7. Quantum Cosmology and the End of Time
PART II
Light: Time Reborn
Interlude: Einstein’s Discontent
8. The Cosmological Fallacy
9. The Cosmological Challenge
10. Principles for a New Cosmology
11. The Evolution of Laws
12. Quantum Mechanics and the Liberation of the Atom
13. The Battle Between Relativity and the Quantum
14. Time Reborn from Relativity
15. The Emergence of Space
16. The Life and Death of the Universe
17. Time Reborn from Heat and Light
18. Infinite Space or Infinite Time?
19. The Future of Time
Epilogue: Thinking in Time
Notes
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