The Children of Time

    "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, analytical spectroscopist/chemist,         National Institute of Standards and Technology       What is time? Does it really pass? These and other 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; my 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.