The Nature of TimeISBN: 978-0-631-16578-1
Paperback
196 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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The Contributors vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Time 'Paradoxes' in Relativity 6
3 Space, Time and Space--Time: A Philosopher's View 22
4 Big Bangs, Black Holes and 'Time's Arrow' 36
5 Time and Cosmology 63
6 Time and Dispersal: The Second Law 80
7 Time Asymmetry and Quantum Mechanics 99
8 The Open Future 125
9 Causal Loops 135
Glossary 170
Bibliography 180
Index 183