Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks : singularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes
著者
書誌事項
Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks : singularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes
Oxford University Press, 1995
大学図書館所蔵 件 / 全14件
-
該当する所蔵館はありません
- すべての絞り込み条件を解除する
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- 1. Introducing Spacetime Singularities and Acausalities
- 2. Defining, Characterizing, and Proving the Existence
- 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
「Nielsen BookData」 より