by Ikaros I Bigi and Martin Faessler (eds), World Scientific. Hardback ISBN 9812566341, £56 ($98).
Time and matter are the most fundamental concepts in physics and in any science-based description of the world around us. Quantum theory has, however, revealed many novel insights into these concepts in non-relativistic, relativistic and cosmological contexts. The implications of these novel perspectives have been realized and, in particular, probed experimentally only recently. The papers in this publication discuss these issues in an interdisciplinary fashion from philosophical and historical perspectives. The leading contributors, including Nobel laureates T W Hänsch and G ‘t Hooft, address both experimental and theoretical issues. Physicists, philosophers, historians of science, and graduate physics students will find this an interesting read.
