The End of Certainty

Time, Chaos and the New Laws of Nature

By: Ilya Prigogine

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Hardcover | 17 August 1997

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Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.

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Oliver Sacks "Prigogine is a pioneer of chaos and self-organization theory, and his vision is as revolutionary and fundamental as Darwin's. With a fascinating blend of the conceptual, historical, and personal, he gives us a rare and privileged glimpse into one of the most adventurous scientific imaginations of our time."

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Non-Fiction Science Physics Relativity Physics Mathematics Applied Mathematics Chaos Theory Philosophy Metaphysics & Ontology History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Astronomy, Space & Time

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Acknowledgments
Author's Note
Introduction: A New Rationality?	p. 1
Epicurus' Dilemma	p. 9
Only an Illusion?	p. 57
From Probability to Irreversibility	p. 73
The Laws of Chaos	p. 89
Beyond Newton's Laws	p. 107
A Unified Formulation of Quantum Theory	p. 129
Our Dialogue with Nature	p. 153
Does Time Precede Existence?	p. 163
A Narrow Path	p. 183
Notes	p. 191
Glossary	p. 201
Index	p. 207
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