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The Nature of Time

Raymond Flood (Editor), Michael Lockwood (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-16578-1
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196 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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The Contributors vii

1 Introduction 1

2 Time 'Paradoxes' in Relativity 6

3 Space, Time and Space--Time: A Philosopher's View 22

4 Big Bangs, Black Holes and 'Time's Arrow' 36

5 Time and Cosmology 63

6 Time and Dispersal: The Second Law 80

7 Time Asymmetry and Quantum Mechanics 99

8 The Open Future 125

9 Causal Loops 135

Glossary 170

Bibliography 180

Index 183

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