From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time [B0167]

2010 PB. A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward? Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life.

From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Maybe I have developed a better understanding of Physics. Maybe this is one of the better-written books by Dr. Caroll. In any case, this book makes more sense than his earlier books. It guides the reader through a plethora of ideas related to the arrow of time and the second law of thermodynamics. I wouldn't;t go as far as saying that it is an easy read, no serious book of physics can be, but it certainly does not put off a lay reader like me. And that is a big plus."; "Not an easy read but worth effort. I'm not that well versed in physics by any means but I found it interesting."