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On time

Michael Shallis

1982208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1982
first published
  • 1982Burnett · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780091489502
  • 1983Penguin Books Ltd · 208 pagesISBN 9780140224979

In this book, the author takes us on a guided tour of this new, relativistic universe where time is a central, but elusive, factor. He shows how complicated our time-keeping will become should we ever achieve the dream of traveling to the stars; how "black holes" stop time in its tracks; how the relationship between time and light limits our probing of the universe.

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