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100 1 $aRaju, C. K.
245 14 $aThe eleven pictures of time :$bthe physics, philosophy, and politics of time beliefs /$cC.K. Raju.
260 $aNew Delhi ;$aThousand Oaks, CA :$bSage Publications,$cc2003.
300 $a587 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [501]-565) and index.
505 0 $aPreface 13 Prologue 15 pt. 1 Time and Eschatology 1 Life after Death 21 2 The Curse on 'Cyclic' Time 37 3 Creation, Immortality, and the New Physics 52 pt. 2 Time in Current Physics 4 Newton's Secret 123 5 In Einstein's Shadow 143 6 Broken Time: Chance, Chaos, Complexity 172 7 Time Travel 229 pt. 3 De-Theologising Physics 8 The Eleven Pictures of Time 271 9 The Tilt in the Arrow of Time 298 pt. 4 Time and Values 10 Time as Money 323 11 The Transformation of Time in Tradition 355 12 Revaluation of all Values 406 Epilogue 439 Appendix 443 The Argument 455 Acknowledgments 472 Persons 475 Dates 487 Glossary 493 Notes 501 Index 567 About the Author.
520 $a"Extensive research in physics, the history of science, comparative religions, and sociology lend weight to the important and challenging conclusions reached by the author. Written as a rejoinder to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, this book goes much further and, unlike any previous book, it gives a critical exposition of various world religious - Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism - while exploring their intricate links, through time beliefs, to current physics on the one hand, and to global political and economic trends, on the other. This book will appeal to scholars and laypersons equally. It will fascinate anyone who reads it and will teach its readers to question the unquestionable."--Jacket.
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