Bangs, Crunches, Whimpers, and Shrieks
Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 November 1995
- ISBN 9780195095913
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 241x165x28 mm
- Weight 511 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
This book explains the relevant technical issues of general relativity theory and discusses how these issues bear upon philosophical problems about the nature of space and time, causality, and laws of nature. The first book to address these implications critically, it provides an overview of the technical literature as well as analytical commentary on its philosophical significance.
MoreLong description:
This book is the first serious, book-length study of the philosophical implications of relativity. It explains the relevant technical issues of general relativity theory and discusses how these issues bear upon philosophical problems about the nature of space and time, causality and laws of nature. Features include an analysis of time travel, The Big Bang and the Horizon Problem, Eternal Recurrence and Cyclic Time amongst other much debated issues today which have been brought to light in the the face of a series of theorems, due largely to Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. Written by a leading philosopher, this book provides an overview of the technical literature as well as analytical commentary on its philosophical significance.
...this book is a refreshing addition to the literature for we find that Earman not only provides excellent discussions but also clarifies (or in some instances re-defines) the standard definitions involved...the book is highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introducing Spacetime Singularities and Acausalities
Defining, Characterizing, and Proving the Existence
Cosmic Censorship
Supertasks
The Big Bang and the Horizon Problem
Time Travel
Eternal; Recurrence, Cyclic Time, and All That
Afterword
