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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New York :
Free Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
