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God, Stephen Hawking and the multiverse : what Hawking said, and why it matters / David Wilkinson, Dave Hutchings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, David, Rev. Dr., author.
- Hutchings, David, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universe--Popular works.
- Universe.
- Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018.
- Hawking, Stephen.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 210 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2020.
- Contents:
- 1 Project Shangri-La p. 1
- The icon p. 5
- Big Questions p. 9
- 2 Tunguska p. 13
- Elementary, my dear Aristotle p. 15
- It's all Greek to me p. 17
- This most beautiful system p. 19
- Force fields and the art of science p. 22
- Light and momentary troubles p. 25
- A space-, time- and mind-bending solution p. 28
- Hawking, relativity and those Big Questions p. 30
- 3 Canoe man p. 33
- A case for the defence p. 34
- The beginning of the end p. 35
- Hooke versus Newton revisited p. 36
- But together they do p. 38
- Young strikes again p. 39
- Weirdness, weirdness, everywhere p. 41
- A matter of interpretation p. 42
- Heisenberg, histories and Hawking p. 45
- Closing argument p. 47
- 4 Gingerich's quest p. 50
- All that nonsense p. 51
- The book nobody read p. 53
- Holding the universe still p. 54
- The 1920s' Copernicus #1 p. 55
- The 1920s' Copernicus #2 p. 57
- Redshifting opinions p. 58
- The discarded image p. 59
- A cooling-off period p. 60
- The small matter of nucleosynthesis p. 61
- Digging the cosmological heels in p. 63
- Brainwaves and microwaves p. 64
- Cosmology and salvation p. 66
- 5 Batman Forever? p. 80
- The clash of the titans p. 81
- Why can't you two just get along?! p. 82
- Separation anxiety p. 84
- The dark star p. 86
- Where QM and GR meet p. 88
- Hawking destroys the universe p. 91
- QM versus GR - the infinite battleground p. 94
- Hawking the hero p. 98
- Akira Yoshida p. 101
- Unification p. 102
- The grand unified theory p. 103
- Putting the heat on p. 105
- Just how far can we take this? p. 107
- A new hope p. 111
- Black holes ain't so black p. 112
- Hawking radiation p. 114
- Securing a legacy p. 116
- Trouble in Paradise p. 117
- Mathematical dogfights p. 121
- Imagine that p. 122
- Waves, particles, probabilities, histories p. 124
- Hawking goes big p. 126
- A disclaimer p. 129
- Extraordinary measures p. 130
- Extraordinary times p. 131
- A theory of (almost) everything p. 133
- Multiverses, metaphysics and myths p. 136
- 7 Tyres and anchors p. 139
- Counter-punches p. 141
- Crossing the divide p. 141
- Is philosophy dead? p. 144
- You Kant be serious!? p. 147
- Being critical about realism p. 150
- A rose by any other name p. 151
- One foot in each camp p. 152
- Introducing the multiverse p. 154
- Creating history p. 157
- Hawking and God p. 159
- Switching the spotlight p. 161
- 8 The Test of Solomon p. 163
- What about singularities? p. 163
- What about Hawking radiation? p. 165
- What about the no-boundary proposal? p. 167
- No rescue p. 168
- What about model-dependent realism? p. 172
- What about the multiverse? p. 174
- Infinite death p. 178
- What about God? p. 180
- Different universes p. 182
- Big Answers p. 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780281081912
- 0281081913
- OCLC:
- 1127200184
- Publisher Number:
- 99983497909
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