The Children of Time
Causality, Entropy, Becoming
Translated from the French by E.C. Neher
What is time? Does it really pass? and other important questions
Paper – $24
978-0-252-06427-2
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/01/1995
About the Book
In The Children of Time, fascinating questions about the nature of time animate a continuing philosophical and scientific debate. In this popular French book, now available for the first time in English. Rémy Lestienne moves to make the bewildering concepts of time accessible—and interesting. He uses Galileo, Newton, Einstein, and others to demonstrate how the concepts of causality and entropy became so pervasive that they eventually were substituted for time itself. He also shows how recent advances in astronomy, particle physics, developmental life sciences, and the neurosciences are helping to shape a new philosophical vision of time.About the Author
Rémy Lestienne is the Honorary Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and coeditor of Time and Science, Volume 1: The Metaphysics of Time and Its Evolution.Reviews
"A work of scientific substance and critical wisdom, developed in the urbane idiom of a French scholar."—J. T. Fraser, founder, International Society for the Study of Time
"This is the book for those of us who couldn't wade completely through Hawking's A Brief History of Time and now have it collecting dust on our bookshelves. Well written, thought-provoking, and, most important, understandable."
—Michael Epstein, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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