Published: May 07, 2011
Words: 2,642 (approximate)
Language: American English
ISBN: 9781458027689

Short description

Did time have a beginning? Will it end? Does space end? Do children and the aged perceive time's efflux alike? What does measuring time have to do with motion? While we struggle to come to terms with space and time shall we end up adding to the list of questions with extraordinary truth values? Several of these questions we can answer. An illustrated essay that is short, philosophical and funny …

Extended description

What would be the truth value of the statement, "Time has no beginning"? What existed a minute before the beginning of time? Are the past and the future alike? We know about fundamental particles near us. But beyond our universe, quadrillions of light years beyond the farthest heavenly body that exists, where there is neither matter nor light how far does space extend? Can infinity be covered? Can things which actually exist have an uncertain number or quantity? Why does time appear to flow faster as we age? How do humans perceive time? Time and space have always been associated with difficult questions. Several of these questions we can answer and several others we can't. Can we also pin-point some of the problem areas and summarize our observations? This pithy essay takes a fresh look at some traditional views and why they may eventually change …

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parallel universe, infinity, end of time, time machine, spacetime, beginning of time, fourth dimesion, both true and false, neither true nor false, liar paradox

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Review by: Syamales Datta on Sep. 03, 2011 :
This book travels into the arena of riddles of time and space that have fantastic elements of thought provoking issues. The author has segregated time into past and future where past is infinite and more indefinite than the future which is also infinite.. Modern science gives time a dimension on the co-ordinate axes called the fourth dimension. Space is in three dimensions and itself is infinite. However it humbles down the space occupied by heavenly bodies to finite level because there must be a limit to their number even though we cannot count it. The author has referred to the Isaac Newton's inertial motion and Einstein's theory of relativity to diagnose the true nature of time and space. The book is worth paying some attention for those who have interest in the time space mysteries.
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