About Time Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang

Name: About Time Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
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ISBN: 9781439169605

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Authors: Adam Frank

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Now in paperback, “a phenomenal blend of science and cultural history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), About Time gives readers a peek into the cutting edge of cosmology, showing how it is intimately wedded to the texture of our daily lives.In About Time, Adam Frank explains how the texture of our lives changes along with our understanding of the universe’s origin. Since we awoke to self-consciousness 50,000 years ago, our lived experience of time—from hunting and gathering to the development of agriculture to the industrial revolution to the invention of Outlook calendars—has been transformed and rebuilt many times. But the latest theories in cosmology—time with no beginning, parallel…

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List price: $25.99
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 9/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Prologue: Beginnings and Endings



Talking Sky, Working Stone and Living Field: From Prehistory 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



Inflation, 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, Arrows 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


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