Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

What is time?



This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face-from the Big Bang to the future of the universe, from the puzzles of quantum physics to the unification of forces and particles-come down to the nature of time.



The fact that time is real may seem obvious. You experience it passing every day when you watch clocks tick, bread toast...