"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to expl

Written by a wide range of experts, this work presents cosmological, biological and philosophical perspectives on complexity in our universe.

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about

The Element reconstructs, analyses and compares different derivational routes to a grounding of the Arrow of Time in entropy. It demonstrates that it is unlikel

In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time -- and shapes the desti