Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant - Hardcover
by Gordon Belot
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192866462ISBN-10:019286646XUPC:9780192866462Book Category:Science, MathematicsBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, History & Philosophy, Space ScienceBook Topic:CosmologySize:8.30 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC0SG6P7SS
Accelerating Expansion explores some of the philosophical implications of modern cosmology, focused on the significance that the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe has for our understanding of time, geometry, and physics. The appearance of the cosmological constant in the equations of general relativity allows one to model universes in which space has an inherent tendency...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192866462ISBN-10:019286646XUPC:9780192866462Book Category:Science, MathematicsBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, History & Philosophy, Space ScienceBook Topic:CosmologySize:8.30 x 5.70 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC0SG6P7SS
Gordon Belot, Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan Gordon Belot studied at the University of Toronto, Cambridge University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He has taught at Princeton University, New York University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Michigan, where he is currently the Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy. His...
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