While experience tells us that time flows from the past to the present and into the future, a number of philosophical and physical objections exist to this comm

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about

This volume explores Western views on time from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages, going on to modern scientific concepts, including relativity, biological

Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.

In a book that has become a milestone of scientific writing Dr. Blum uses "time's arrow," the second law of thermodynamics, as a key concept to show how the nat