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.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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