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.
作者简介
诺贝尔化学奖得主伊利亚·普利戈金(Ilya Prigogine)是德克萨斯州奥斯汀市伊利亚·普利戈金(Ilya Prigogine)统计力学、热力学和复杂系统中心(Ilya Prigogine Center)的主任,也是布鲁塞尔索尔维物理和化学研究所(solay Institutes of Physics and chemistry)的主任。普利金获得了来自世界各地40多所大学的荣誉学位,有5个研究复杂系统的研究所以他的名字命名。他住在布鲁塞尔和奥斯汀。
Viscount Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, is the Director of the Ilya Prigogine Center of Statistical Mechanics, THermodynamics and Complex Systems in Austin, Texas, and the Director of the Solvay Institutes of Physics and Chemistry in Brussels. The recipient of honorary degrees from more than forty universities around the world, Prigogine has had five institutes devoted to the study of complex systems named for him. He lives in Brussels and Austin.
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