The asymmetry of nature under a'reversal of time'(that is, a reversal of motion and change)
appears only too obvious to us, as it deeply affects our own form of existence. If physics is to …

The first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of
time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters …

The cosmological argument is a family of arguments that seek to demonstrate the existence
of a Sufficient Reason or First Cause of the existence of the cosmos. The roll of the …

The development of dark energy models has stimulated interest to cosmological
singularities, which differ from the traditional Big Bang and Big Crunch singularities. We …

In this fascinating book, the renowned astrophysicist J. Richard Gott leads time travel out of
the world of HG Wells and into the realm of scientific possibility. Building on theories posited …

After a survey of the present state of cosmological theory and observations, this article
discusses a series of major themes underlying the relation of philosophy to cosmology …

We reviewed the canonical quantisation of the geometry of the spacetime in the cases of a
simply and a non-simply connected manifold. In the former, we analysed the information …

This book is the product—and in a certain sense, the record—of a multitude of fortuitous
conversations and collaborations. Thanks are due, first of all, to Clayton Crockett, whose …

In this paper, our objective is to explore a time-machine space-time formulated in general
relativity, as introduced by Li (Phys. Rev. D 59, 084016 (1999)), within the context of …

In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions:
Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it cyclic? Are we alone in the …