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Time, the fundamental dimension of our existence, has fascinated artists, philosophers, and scientists of every culture and every century. All of us can remember a moment as a child when time became a personal reality, when we realized what a "year" was, or asked ourselves when "now" happened. Common sense says time moves forward, never backward, from cradle to grave. Nevertheless, Einstein said that time is an illusion. Nature's laws, as he and Newton defined them, describe a timeless, deterministic universe within which we can make predictions with complete certainty. In effect, these great physicists contended that time is reversible and thus meaningless.
This is the book that all of today's physicists should read. The more I learn about the impressive edifice of modern physics the more I learn that it's built on quick sand due to the many inconsistencies between theories, a strangely anti-empirical stance when it comes to the nature of time, and a willingness to accept paradox as an interesting feature of a theory when this should be an obvious hint of major problems. I can't comment on whether Prigogine's work is the necessary antidote but I do feel that his re-injection of asymmetrical time into the equations of physics is a very important first step. I also appreciate his appreciation for a broader view than most physicists are capable of today. It seems that the way to solve the many impasses of today's physics will require a broad interdisciplinary approach to knowledge. And key to that approach is the realization that Heraclitus was right: all things flow.
