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About Time
AuthorPaul Davies
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Books, Simon & Schuster
Publication date
April 9, 1996
Pages320
ISBN978-0-14-195198-0

About Time (ISBN 978-0-684-81822-1), published in 1996, is the second book written by Paul Davies, regarding the subject of time. The intended audience is the general public, rather than science academics.

About Time explores selected mysteries of spacetime, following on from Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, which Davies believes does not fully explain time as humans experience it. The author explains

Important though Einstein's time turned out to be, it still did not solve "the riddle of time".

The book delves into the nature of metaphysics, time, motion and gravity, covering a wide range of aspects surrounding the current cosmological debate, across 283 pages in great detail. It includes an index, a bibliography, and numerous diagrams.

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