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

“What is time?” Saint Augustine asked. “If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I have to explain it, I don’t.” In this highly anticipated volume, Carroll, a Caltech theoretical physicist and inspired blogger at Cosmic Variance, follows the arrow of time towards a scientific answer to such saintly bewilderment.

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