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200 10$aBangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks $esingularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes /$fJohn Earman
210  1$aNew York ;$cOxford University Press,$d2023.
215   $a1 online resource (270 p.)
225 1 $aOxford scholarship online
300   $aBibliography: p228-245. _ Includes index.
300   $aPreviously issued in print: 1995.
311   $a0-19-509591-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 228-245) and index.
327   $a1. 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.
330 8 $aExplains the technical issues of general relativity theory and discusses how these issues bear upon philosophical problems about the nature of space and time, causality, and laws of nature. This book provides an overview of the technical literature as well as analytical commentary on its philosophical significance.
410  0$aOxford scholarship online.
606   $aSpace and time
606   $aGeneral relativity (Physics)
606   $aSingularities (Mathematics)
615  0$aSpace and time.
615  0$aGeneral relativity (Physics)
615  0$aSingularities (Mathematics)
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