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`This is unquestionably mind-expanding stuff' The Guardian `wonderfully stimulating book' The Sunday Telegraph `Review from previous edition This book is a fine introduction to many of the classical puzzles and paradoxes of space, time and the continuum ... Anyone new to these topics will find much to savour and ponder ... The writing is clear ... the pace is brisk.' Barry Dainton, Times Literary Supplement

a lucid philosophical primer on space and time ...unquestionably mind-expanding stuff The Guardian

`This is unquestionably mind-expanding stuff' The Guardian `wonderfully stimulating book' The Sunday Telegraph `Review from previous edition This book is a fine introduction to many of the classical puzzles and paradoxes of space, time and the continuum ... Anyone new to these topics will find much to savour and ponder ... The writing is clear ... the pace is brisk.' Barry Dainton, Times Literary Supplement

With Royal Society Professor of astronomy, Sir Martin Rees, making waves in the press with his claim that life, the universe and everything may, after all, be little more than a complex computer programme, Poidevin's book on time and space is more topical than ever. Poidevin asks few questions that haven't been looked at since Aristotle. The strength of his book lies in a clear, lucid style that makes easy reading of what must be the hardest notions in philosophy and physics: do we exist, is time-travel possible? How can we ever know anything for certain? The nature of time and space, indeed, the very fabric of reality are now being examined as never before. Poidevin cannot offer conclusive answers regarding reality, his book however, ensures that when it comes to discussing areas of physics few scientists really clearly understand you'll be able to do so knowledgeably and with aplomb. (Kirkus UK)

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Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds.

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