About time cosmology and culture at the twilight of the big bang
"The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language: | English |
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2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a About time : |b cosmology and culture at the twilight of the big bang / |c Adam Frank. |
| 250 | |a 1st Free Press hardcover ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Free Press, |c 2011. | ||
| 300 | |a xxi, 406 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Talking sky, working stone and living field : from prehistory to the agricultural revolution -- The city, the cycle and the epicycle : from the urban revolution to a rational universe -- The clock, the bell tower and the spheres of God : from the medieval monastery to the renaissance cosmos -- Cosmic machines, illuminated night and the factory clock : from Newton's universe to thermodynamics and the Industrial Revolution -- The telegraph, the electric clock and the block universe : the imperatives of simultaneity from time zones to Einstein's cosmos -- The expanding universe, radio hours and washing machine time : speed, cosmology and culture between the world wars --The Big Bang, Telstar, and a new Armageddon : the nuclear big bang's triumph in a televised space age -- Inflation, cell phones and the outlook universe : information revolutions and the big bang gets in trouble -- Wheels within wheels : cyclic universes and the challenge of quantum gravity : eternal time through repeating time -- Ever-changing eternities : the promise and perils of a multiverse : eternal inflation, arrows of time and the anthropic principle -- Giving up the ghost : the end of beginnings and the end of time : cosmology's radical alternatives in three acts -- In the fields of leaning grass : ending the beginning in human and cosmic time. | |
| 520 | |a "The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result"-- Provided by publisher. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Cosmology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Big bang theory. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Beginning. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Life |x Origin. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Space and time. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Stein, Sylvia tribute | |
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