Time Is Not a River
Causality, Memory and the Hidden Structure of Becoming
Frontiers of Reality · Volume II · English Edition
The second volume of the Frontiers of Reality series investigates time, causality, memory, entropy, relativity and the possibility that time may be real and measurable without being a fundamental ingredient of nature.
About the Book
For centuries, time has been imagined as a universal current flowing from past to future. Modern physics makes that image increasingly difficult to sustain. Relativity changes the meaning of simultaneity, gravity changes the rhythm of clocks, thermodynamics connects temporal direction to entropy, and quantum theory raises deeper questions about causality, measurement and becoming.
This book does not deny the reality of time. It takes time seriously enough to separate it from the simplest metaphor we inherited. The aim is to show how transformations leave traces, how traces become memory, and how memory makes a direction legible inside the physical world.
About the Series
Frontiers of Reality is a popular science series designed to build a bridge between advanced theoretical research and readers who want to understand the deep conceptual transformations taking place in contemporary physics, cosmology and the philosophy of science.
Each volume focuses on one fundamental idea and follows it carefully, step by step, from familiar intuition to the point where modern science begins to change the image of reality itself.