The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern CosmologyClarendon Press, 1965 - 436 síður |
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... problem . Probably the greatest single obstacle to progress in the wider context was an inability to appreciate what it would mean to decide between a finite and an infinite universe . How could one possibly recognize an end to the ...
... problem . Probably the greatest single obstacle to progress in the wider context was an inability to appreciate what it would mean to decide between a finite and an infinite universe . How could one possibly recognize an end to the ...
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... problem could , in principle , be solved . This kind of approach to the problem was committed to so many uncertainties that it found no following.76 There was instead , amongst adherents of the relativistic theories , a gradual movement ...
... problem could , in principle , be solved . This kind of approach to the problem was committed to so many uncertainties that it found no following.76 There was instead , amongst adherents of the relativistic theories , a gradual movement ...
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... problem in assigning coordinates . The problem in defining ' cosmic time ' ( Gödel refers to it as ' absolute time ' ) is said to be ' one of obtaining a precise definition ' by introducing an ' arbitrary element ' , as , for example ...
... problem in assigning coordinates . The problem in defining ' cosmic time ' ( Gödel refers to it as ' absolute time ' ) is said to be ' one of obtaining a precise definition ' by introducing an ' arbitrary element ' , as , for example ...
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COSMOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH | 16 |
FIELD THEORIES AND THE WISH TO | 24 |
The Le SageThomson explanation of gravitation | 38 |
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The Measure of the Universe: A History of Modern Cosmology John David North Engin sýnishorn í boði - 1965 |
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