02749nam 2200709uu 450 991081416640332120240912162949.00-19-772999-11-280-45113-097866104511350-19-534464-21-60256-632-110.1093/oso/9780195095913.001.0001(CKB)1000000000363294(EBL)271045(OCoLC)171572808(SSID)ssj0000108726(PQKBManifestationID)11129033(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108726(PQKBWorkID)10036943(PQKB)11617886(Au-PeEL)EBL4702197(CaPaEBR)ebr11273456(OCoLC)969638226(MiAaPQ)EBC4702197(OCoLC)1406784695(StDuBDS)9780197729991(MiAaPQ)EBC271045(EXLCZ)99100000000036329419970120e20231995 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrBangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks singularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes /John EarmanNew York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (270 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineBibliography: p228-245. _ Includes index.Previously issued in print: 1995.0-19-509591-X Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-245) and index.1. Introducing Spacetime Singularities and Acausalities -- 2. Defining, Characterizing, and Proving the Existence of Spacetime Singularities -- 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.Explains the 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. This book provides an overview of the technical literature as well as analytical commentary on its philosophical significance.Oxford scholarship online.Space and timeGeneral relativity (Physics)Singularities (Mathematics)Space and time.General relativity (Physics)Singularities (Mathematics)530.1/1Earman John52075UkUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910814166403321Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks472674UNINA