The founding father of chaos theory shatters Einstein's theory that time is merely an illusion, achieving nothing less than a new formulation of the laws of nature. In The End of Certainty, world-renowned chemist Ilya Prigogine draws together probability and certainty, Einstein and Shakespeare, and chaos and complexity to explain why our fundamental beliefs about time are wrong. For centuries science has been predicated upon a Promothean belief in the progress of reason and the steady advance of incontrovertible knowledge about the world. Prigogine's work formulates a groundbreaking link between instability and chaos and the evolutionary framework in which we exist.