| Edition |
First Free Press hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-387) and index. |
| Contents |
Talking sky, working stone and living field: From preshistory to the agricultural revolution -- The city, the cycle and the epicycle: From the urban revolution to a rational universe -- The clock, the bell tower and the spheres of God: From the medieval monastery to the renaissance cosmos -- Cosmic machines, illuminated night and the factory clock: From Newton's universe to Thermodynamics and the industrial revolution -- The telegraph, the electric clock and the block universe: The imperatives of simultaneity from time zones to Einstein's cosmos -- The expanding universe, radio hours and washing machine time: Speed, cosmology and culture between the world wars -- The Big Bang, telstar and a new Armageddon: The nuclear Big Bang's triumph in a televised space age -- Inflaction, cell phones and the outlook universe: Information revolutions and the Big Bang gets in trouble -- Wheels within wheels : Cyclic universes and the challenge of Quantum gravity: Eternal time through repeating time -- Ever-changing eternities : The promise and perils of a multiverse: Eternal inflation, arrors of time and the anthropic principle -- Giving up the ghost : The end of beginnings and the end of time: Cosmology's radical alternatives in three acts -- In the fields of leaning grass: Ending the beginning in human and cosmic time. |
| Summary |
"The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Cosmology.
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Big bang theory.
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Beginning.
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Life -- Origin.
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Space and time.
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| ISBN |
9781439169599 hardback $26.00 |
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1439169594 hardback |
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