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Title: The Nature of time by Raymond Flood, Michael Lockwood ISBN: 0-631-14807-8 Publisher: B. Blackwell Pub. Date: 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Erudite and Highly Readable
Comment: Is there an error in my title? A contradiction, perhaps? Not at all. This collection of essays by many noted experts, based on a series of public lectures at Oxford University, is an intelligent and entertaining review of many fields in philosophy and modern physics.

It's surprising, really, how many people have such a strong interest in the most exotic and often difficult aspects of physics. For the reader who is not afraid of careful reading and thinking, Flood and Lockwood's The Nature of Time will provide one of the best brief accounts of these topics.

So, what is the nature of time? There are no spoilers in this review; after a hundred seventy pages a definitive answer is still lacking. The point of these essays is to describe the state of our current knowledge and the direction of our current thinking. The depth of knowledge presented by the essayists is impressive, with all of them seeming coversant in what the others are doing, even crossing the physics/philosophy divide. At times it is not clear how the discussion relates to time, but of course this is a complicated subject, and the authors make their points clear soon enough.

I would say that this work is an excellent second book on the subject. Someone with no background in physics (and by this I mean not even modern popular physics - certainly formal university study is not a must here) will probably find much of the talk difficult. But once you have some background, you'll find here an eminently readable and useful discussion of the fields.