Travels in Four Dimensions

"Space and time are the most fundamental features of our experience, and yet they are also the most puzzling." "Robin Le Poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimulating guide through these and many other puzzles and paradoxes. Drawing on a variety of examples from science, history, and literature, he gives a vivid sense of the difficulties raised by our ordinary ideas of space and time, and equips us to think about these problems for ourselves."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: On the evening of 15 February 1894, a man was discovered in the park near the Royal Observatory at Greenwich in a most distressing condition: it appeared that he had been carrying or otherwise handling some explosive which had gone off in his hands.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

2

Pages

303

ISBN

9780198752554

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