Reviews for The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe

The average rating for The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-09-15 00:00:00 Michael Fox A curious book: for nine tenths of it, Lockwood staunchly supports Einstein's "loaf universe" view, according to which the future is as determinate as the past, together with the "Principle of Sufficient Reason," according to which even a time traveler can't change the past because his/her visit is already part of it. Then he veers off into a discussion of how time travel *could* change the past (hence, the future is *not* fixed) based on his (many worlds) interpretation of Everett's non-collapse quantum mechanics. I'm confused, to say the least!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-28 00:00:00 Ludger Engels The author from start to finish seems to think that time is something that can only be investigated scientifically. This makes his book in the end largely pointless. He spends page after page on minute microscopic detail about scientific diagrams of cones without the thought ever appearing to cross his mind that maybe what he is doing is absurd. It is as if a painting were to be examined purely in terms of the pigments of which the paint was made up of, and the woof and weave of the canvas upon which it had been laid. In short, Lockwood's book is a representation of the failings of modern science as much as anything. Without Plato's teaching that "Time is a moving image of Eternity" how can we begin to approach the subject of time?