11. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Many-Universes Models
it leaves the geometry of spacetime untouched. If, as
seems reasonable, passage through a singularity also affects the geometry of
the universe, we should expect an open Big Bang after a finite number of
cycles, thus putting an end to any hope
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12. General Term: Future lightcone
A cone-shaped portion of spacetime containing all (future) locations at which
light could arrive after having departed from a particular location within
spacetime (the tip of the cone). Points inside the cone can be reached at the
speed of
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13. Divine Action Topic: Cushing, James T. Determinism Versus Indeterminis...
causal
description in a spacetime background. Physical processes are thus both
indeterministic and nonlocal. Bohmian mechanics is an objective (realist) and
deterministic account in which the positions of the particles of the
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14. General Term: Black Hole
A point of extreme mass in spacetime with a radius, or event horizon, inside
of which all electromagnetic radiation (including light) is trapped by gravity -
No communication is possible from inside the event horizon to the world outside
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15. General Term: Contemporary Cosmology
The study of the structure, spacetime relationships, and origin of the
universe that unites the tools of astronomy and quantum theory .
Related Topics:
Physics
Contributed
by: Dr. Christopher Southgate
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16. General Term: Field Theory
reality, including the spacetime continuum,
by means of the influence of a field, such as gravity, on objects.
Related Topics:
Physics
Search
for Field Theory
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17. General Term: Flowing Time
Flowing Time A view of spacetime that supposes the truly temporal character of time as a
fourth dimension and thus insists that flowing time is integral to the structure
of reality.
Related Topics:
Physics
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18. General Term: Special Relativity
of space and time in
spacetime, often referred to as 3+1 --> 4". Here, though time
and space measurements vary between moving observers, the measure of the spacetime
interval between events is invariant.
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19. Physics Topic: Physics and Cosmology: Topic Index
and time are paradoxical but spacetime may be just
there; a quantum world where things just happen
and nature as a mechanical clock is overturned; a thermodynamic
world where entropy reigns but order and novelty emerge
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20. Interview: The Anthropic Principle
and Dimensions
of Spacetime
Play
John Barrow on 'Copernicus ' Principle'
Play
John Barrow on Our Location in the Universe and the
Anthropic Principle
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