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Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks [electronic resource] : singularities and acausality in relativistic spacetimes / John Earman.

By: Earman, John.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: 257 p.Subject(s): Space and time | General relativity (Physics) | Singularities (Mathematics)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 530.1/1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.