About time : cosmology, time and culture at the twilight of the big bang
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About time : cosmology, time and culture at the twilight of the big bang
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ISBN:
9781452604527
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Unabridged.
Publication Information:
[Old Saybrook, Ct.] : Tantor Media, p2011.
Physical Description:
11 sound discs (13.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Compact discs.
Contents:
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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Summary:
Author Adam Frank tells the story of humanity's deepest question--when and how did everything begin?--alongside the story of how human beings have experienced time in an astounding book that will change the way we think about time.
