Time in the comics. (Introducing Time: A Graphic Guide)

The author, Craig Callender, and the illustrator, Ralph Edney, coolly parse through the difficult questions of time. It all begins with the famous theologian, Aurelius Augustine, who in his Confessions, reflecting on time, says "I do not even know what I do not know." Hector Berlioz once said, “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.”

And between this beginning and the end, the authors spend time in stories about different concepts of time:

• starting from the clock (sand, biological, psychological, atomic) and their accuracy Continuing to discuss absolute and relative time
• revealing A-theory and B-theory of time, where in A-theory the future is unreal, and in B-theory time can be represented as space, i.e. the future, past and present exist, simply not in one time Discussing MacTaggart's argument about A and B theories of time Remembering Einstein's Principle of Relativity (to begin with the special theory of relativity) Talking about space-time events and light cones Discussing about time travel (causal) Getting to the general theory of relativity and revealing the curvature of the four-dimensional space of time
• remembering Gödel with his rotating universe fitting Einstein's equations
• Continuing string theory and wormholes (Like Interstellar.)
• reaching Mobius twisting in time Returning to the Big Bang and the concept of eternal return (Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.)
• approaching entropy and the question of time direction and its reversibility (with reference to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics)
• ending with the quantum theory of gravity and a cool aphorism for last:)

Other books on the subject of time

• “A brief history of time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes
• “Unreal reality. A journey through a quantum loop
• "Divine fiction." At the crossroads of science and religion”

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