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关于时间之箭，我最喜欢的当代著作有戴维·艾伯特（David Albert）的《时间与机会》（Time and Chance）、休·普赖斯的《时间之箭与阿基米德点》（Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’Point）、布莱恩·格林（Brain Greene）的《宇宙的结构》[317]以及迈克尔·洛克伍德的《时间的迷宫》（The Labyrinth of Time）。随便哪本都是对本书所呈现内容的有益补充。艾蒂安·克莱因（Etienne Klein）的《时间之神》（Chronos）、克雷格·卡伦德的《时间简介》（Introducing Time）以及保罗·戴维斯（Paul Davies）的《关于时间》都对时间这个主题展开了更广泛的论述。关于广义相对论的背景知识，我建议大家阅读基普·索恩的《黑洞与时间弯曲》[318]，至于黑洞和信息丢失，伦纳德·萨斯坎德的《黑洞战争》[319]值得特别推荐。关于宇宙学，我推荐丹尼斯·奥弗比（Dennis Overbye）的《宇宙的寂寞心灵》（Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos）以及艾伦·古思的《暴胀宇宙》（The Infationary Universe）。戴维·林德利（David Lindley）的《玻尔兹曼的原子》（Boltzmann’s Atom）以及汉斯·贝耶尔（Hans Christian von Baeyer）的《热的历史》（Warmth Disperses and Time Passes：The History of Heat）和斯蒂芬·布拉什（Stephen Brush）关于运动理论的原始文献选集一样，提供了引人入胜的历史背景。迪特尔·泽（Heinz-Dieter Zeh）的《时间方向的物理学基础》（The Physical Basis of the Drection of Time）则在技术层面处理了这个问题。

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