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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782795603321

Autore

Sisti Sebastian

Titolo

The big bang and relative immortality [[electronic resource] ] : seminal essays on the creation of the universe and the advent of biological immortality / / Sebastian Sisti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., c2008

ISBN

9786611793760

1-281-79376-0

0-87586-608-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Disciplina

113

Soggetti

Cosmology, Ancient

Immortality

Immortalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Big Bangism; Chapter 2. Walking through Infinity; Chapter 3. Falling Trees; Chapter 4. The Improbable Being of God; Chapter 5. Progressive Evolution; Chapter 6. Relative Immortality; Chapter 7. Thou Shalt Not Kill; Chapter 8. The Three Compulsions (Contributions to a Theory of Quantum Psychology); Chapter 9. Atoms Think

Sommario/riassunto

This series of brief and sparkling philosophical essays explores the Principle of Continuity as it impacts discussions of the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe, God, infinity, biological immortality and evolution. From Ancient Greece to the frontiers of modern science, some egregious blunders have been made in both philosophy and in theoretical physics. The old theory of Continuous Creation was blown up by the Big Bang theory, but the author shows that this is just another ontological quagmire that conflicts with the First Law of Thermodynamics (conservation)-and common sense. Surveyi