Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks : singularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes / John Earman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earman, John, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space and time.

General relativity (Physics).

Singularities (Mathematics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 philosophical significance.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliography: p228-245. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-245) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772999-1

1-280-45113-0

9786610451135

0-19-534464-2

1-60256-632-1

OCLC:

171572808