scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1508564
cosmologygeneral relativityMinkowskiquantum cosmologyquantum mechanicsquantum theorySchrödinger equationtime in relativityuniverseWheeler-De Witt equation
Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-01) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)
This book contains almost no formula, but more than 50 figures which are carefully chosen to explain the details of the text. Even, if sometimes written in a colloquial or popular style, it describes the essence of the notion of time in relativity, quantum theory, and cosmology. In detail, it contains a carefully written historical part containing Platon's, Newton's and Minkowski's notion of time. A great deal (part 3) is devoted to general relativity, and part 4 of the book ``Quantum mechanics and quantum cosmology represents the most advanced part of it. There, the wave function and the Copenhagen interpretation are discussed, and, finally, the Wheeler-De Witt equation (i.e. the Schrödinger equation for the whole Universe) is discussed but only symbolically written down.
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