Davies is energized by the notion that nature is permissive-that just about anything can happen if it is not forbidden by a physical law. There have been revolutionary changes, he notes, but the story is far from over. In this light, he interprets the history of human intellectual development. In a long ramble interspersed with biographical digressions, personal reflections, and questions from a hypothetical ``skeptic'' baffled by the quantum world, Davies discourses on concepts of time embodied in ancient cultural and religious beliefs the Newtonian clockwork universe, in which time flows according to unbending mathematical laws Einstein's theory that time is relative and flexible and nonintuitive ideas from quantum mechanics. of Adelaide, Australia The Matter Myth, 1992, etc.) gives a broad survey of concepts of time, a subject he has become intimately acquainted with in his research. A prolific popularizer of science, Davies (Physics/Univ.
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