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  The End of Certainty: Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature (Hardback) By (author) Ilya Prigogine

  

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  Short Description for The End of CertaintyThe Nobel laureate and founder of chaos theory challenges the accepted laws of nature, explaining why Einstein's belief that time is merely an illusion is incorrect.
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  • Publisher: The Free Press
  • Published: 17 August 1997
  • Format: Hardback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Chaos Theory | Science: General Issues | Time (chronology), Time Systems & Standards | Relativity Physics | Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -
  • ISBN 13: 9780684837055 ISBN 10: 0684837056
  • Sales rank: 108,479

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• 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.