But what if we're wrong? thinking about the present as if it were the past

Klosterman "visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past, [asking] questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defin...

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Main Author: Klosterman, Chuck, 1972- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Blue Rider Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
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505 0 |a A Brief Examination as to Why This Book Is Hopeless (and a Briefer Examination as to Why It Might Not Be) -- A Quaint and Curious Volume of (Destined-to-Be) Forgotten Lore -- But That's the Way I Like It, Baby. I Don't Want to Live Forever. -- "Merit" -- Burn thy Witches -- The World That Is Not There -- Don't Tell Me What Happens. I'm Recording It. -- Sudden Death (Over Time) -- The Case Against Freedom -- But What If We're Right? -- Only the Penitent Man Shall Pass. 
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650 0 |a Perspective (Philosophy) 
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