Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks : singularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes / John Earman.
Author
Published
- New York : Oxford University Press 1995
Physical description
xi, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
ISBN
- 019509591X
- 9780195095913
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-245) and index.
Contents
- Introducing spacetime singularities and acausalities -- Defining, characterizing, and proving the existence of spacetime singularities -- Cosmic censorship -- Supertasks -- The big bang and the horizon problem -- Time travel -- Eternal recurrence, cyclic time, and all that.
Genre
- Bibliography
- Illustrated
- text
Language
- English
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