Time's Arrow & Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time

Time's Arrow & Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-320

  Price, Huw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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Big Bang; Philosophers; Physics; Time; Universe

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EID: 84940026867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195117981.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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