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Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks : singularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes /
Explains the 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. This book provides an overview of the technical literature as well as analytical commentary on its philosophic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introducing Spacetime Singularities and Acausalities; 2. Defining, Characterizing, and Proving the Existence of Spacetime Singularities; 3. Cosmic Censorship; 4. Supertasks; 5. The Big Bang and the Horizon Problem; 6. Time Travel; 7. Eternal Recurrence, Cyclic Time, and All That; 8. Afterword; References; Index.