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000428202 1001_ $$aFrank, Adam,$$d1962-
000428202 24510 $$aAbout time :$$bcosmology and culture at the twilight of the big bang /$$cAdam Frank.
000428202 250__ $$a1st Free Press hardcover ed.
000428202 260__ $$aNew York :$$bFree Press,$$c2011.
000428202 300__ $$axxi, 406 p. ;$$c24 cm.
000428202 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000428202 5050_ $$aTalking sky, working stone and living field : from prehistory to the agricultural revolution -- The city, the cycle and the epicycle : from the urban revolution to a rational universe -- The clock, the bell tower and the spheres of God : from the medieval monastery to the renaissance cosmos -- Cosmic machines, illuminated night and the factory clock : from Newton's universe to thermodynamics and the Industrial Revolution -- The telegraph, the electric clock and the block universe : the imperatives of simultaneity from time zones to Einstein's cosmos -- The expanding universe, radio hours and washing machine time : speed, cosmology and culture between the world wars --The Big Bang, Telstar, and a new Armageddon : the nuclear big bang's triumph in a televised space age -- Inflation, cell phones and the outlook universe : information revolutions and the big bang gets in trouble -- Wheels within wheels : cyclic universes and the challenge of quantum gravity : eternal time through repeating time -- Ever-changing eternities : the promise and perils of a multiverse : eternal inflation, arrows of time and the anthropic principle -- Giving up the ghost : the end of beginnings and the end of time : cosmology's radical alternatives in three acts -- In the fields of leaning grass : ending the beginning in human and cosmic time.
000428202 520__ $$a"The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000428202 650_0 $$aCosmology.
000428202 650_0 $$aBig bang theory.
000428202 650_0 $$aBeginning.
000428202 650_0 $$aLife$$xOrigin.
000428202 650_0 $$aSpace and time.
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