A co-founder of the blog Cosmic Variance outlines a comprehensive vision of the universe that attempts to explain why time moves forward, building on a premise that time owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang and may be explained by theoretical space-time properties. Reprint An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time. -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.
