The Time Illusion Quotes

“These examples both demonstrate that the laws of physics, notably Newton’s laws, are time-reversible. They work just as well backwards in time as forwards, and there is no place in them for the second law of thermodynamics. The fundamental laws of physics do not distinguish between past and future.”
― John Gribbin, The Time Illusion

“The image that emerges from quantum physics is similar in some ways to the way that the illusion that air, or water is a continuous fluid emerges. Myriad tiny particles separated by tiny gaps feels to you like a smooth fluid. Myriad quantum states separated by tiny gaps feels to you like a smooth flow of time. Zeno was right. The arrow of time points, but it does not move. THE”
― John Gribbin, The Time Illusion

“The theoretical understanding of what was going on was developed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century using statistical mechanics –an approach to thermodynamics that is based on applying the laws of statistics to the behaviour of large numbers of particles, such as the huge number of atoms or molecules present in a box of gas, each of them acting in accordance with Newton’s laws.”
― John Gribbin, The Time Illusion

“Absolute, true, and mathematical time, for itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external, and by another name is called duration: relative, apparent, and common time, is some sensible and external (whether accurate or unequable) measure for duration by means of motion, which is commonly used instead of true time; such as an hour, a day, a month, a year.”
― John Gribbin, The Time Illusion

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Einstein”
― John Gribbin, The Time Illusion

“The natural effect of processes going on in the Universe is to move from a state of order to a state of disorder, unless there is an input of energy from outside”
― John Gribbin, The Time Illusion