Time reborn : from the crisis in physics to the future of the universe

Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real. Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real. __From the Hardcover edition.__ 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 Bibliograph