Time
The Dream of Killing Chronos
$35.69
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
4 September 2026
Summary
What is time? Does it exist? Can it be stopped? Can time’s arrow be reversed? Can we ever free ourselves from the seemingly inexorable flow of time? Chronos is a mystery, and not only for us: it was a mystery for our distant ancestors too.
In this book, Guido Tonelli guides us along the path to understanding a reality that is very different from what we believe it to be. Modern science allows us to explore the deepest recesses of the universe, and when we observe the giant objects whi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509571598 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509571590 |
| Author: | Guido Tonelli, Edward Williams |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 4 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 142mm x 218mm |
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Critics Review
“Scintillating”
Nature
“Guido Tonelli leads us along the torturous gateway to understanding worlds dominated by relativistic effects, where there is a future that arrives before the past and indeed creates it.”
Coast Magazine
“A journey through the expansive history and mystifying physics of temporality, Time draws a line between the phenomenon itself and how we experience it, forcing us to reckon with the fickle, bewildering nature of this omnipresent thing we move through every day.”
The Slowdown
“Tonelli pays warm, poetic tribute to our very human relationship with time, from the mythology of ancient Greece to contemporary physics and cosmology. An extraordinary achievement and a remarkable book.”
Jim Baggott, author of Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant
“Does time flow or stand still? Does it exist? Can we do without it? Can Chronos be killed?”
La Nazione
“A journey of adventure with surprising discoveries and profound insights.”
La Voce e Il Tempo
“The science described by Tonelli succeeds in showing us the future.”
Il Messagger
Guido Tonelli
Guido Tonelli is a prize-winning physicist and one of the leaders in the discovery of the Higgs boson. He is Professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa and a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. His many publications include the bestselling books Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began and Matter: The Magnificent Illusion.
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