From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

By Sean Carroll

Book Overview

"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time."
-Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe

Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life.

From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452296544
• ISBN13: 9780452296541
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Peabody here, and my boy Sherman

I have always liked contemporary science, history, and the like. Not that new-age claptrap about thinking particles, but the more current glossed-over actual theories of today. If I wanted a more in-depth explanation, I could read the sources for this book. The interest is in the speculation, and it begs the question, "What do you think?" I do, however, get exposed to concepts that are overlooked in all the math behind most of the books on time and its various definitions. Sean Carroll strikes a good balance between what we know and do not know, and what we could know and cannot know. I downloaded the first chapter on the Kindle (free), and it was worth reading to see what I was buying. I went ahead and bought the hardback. When the Kindle enables Text-to-Speech, I will buy another copy, as it is a convenient way to carry your library. I can see where a few concepts were missed, but it is not worth going into it in a review. What is in the book is well worth the read time. And then you have a great reference book for the library. I look forward to reading more books by Sean Carroll. Oh, did I forget to say that this book is about speculation on the meanings and understanding of "time"