The physics of time asymmetry [Hardcover]

P. C. W Davies (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 214 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; 1st edition (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520028252
• ISBN-13: 978-0520028258
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,633,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He also chairs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Post-Detection Taskgroup, so that if SETI succeeds in finding intelligent life, he will be among the first to know. The asteroid 1992OG was officially renamed Pauldavies in his honor. In addition to his many scientific awards, Davies is the recipient of the 1995 Templeton Prize--the world's largest annual prize--for his work on science and religion. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Mind of God, About Time, How to Build a Time Machine, and The Goldilocks Enigma. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Reichenbach-esque, October 12, 2010

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This review is from: The Physics of Time Asymmetry (Paperback)

Caution: You will need to have taken a college course in Classical Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics and Electrodynamics to understand this book.

I wonder if Davies had Reichenbach's Direction of Time in mind when he wrote this. He makes a great number of points that Reichenbach did not. What a read!