Time's Second Arrow
Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
$40.08
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
21 March 2026
Summary
Of the codified laws of nature, famously, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as time passes. New shoes eventually scuff, our bodies weaken and die. Yet our senses tell us that miraculous order constantly emerges, too: children grow and learn; spontaneous patterns manifest in murmurations of starlings. Can it be true that the laws of our universe mandate only dissolutio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324105480 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324105488 |
| Author: | Robert M. Hazen, Michael L. Wong |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 21 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 282g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 147mm x 218mm |
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Critics Review
“Time’s Second Arrow… present[s] an audacious hypothesis: that the increasing complexity observable in the history of life, the universe, and everything reflects a fundamental, hitherto unrecognized law of nature…A laudably concise, compelling account of how everything around us came to be.” – Andrew H. Knoll, author of A Brief History of Earth
Robert M. Hazen
Robert M. Hazen, a geoscientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science, is the author of Symphony in C, among other titles. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Michael L. Wong is a planetary scientist and astrobiologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science. He lives in Washington, DC.
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