Entropic creation [electronic resource] : religious contexts of thermodynamics and cosmology / Helge S. Kragh.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945Publication details: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.Description: 272 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 261.7/65 22
LOC classification:
  • QB981 .K732 2008eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Some early ideas on decay and creation -- Thermodynamics and the heat death -- The entropic creation argument -- Concepts of the universe -- Post-1920 developments -- Shadows from the past.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index.

Introduction -- Some early ideas on decay and creation -- Thermodynamics and the heat death -- The entropic creation argument -- Concepts of the universe -- Post-1920 developments -- Shadows from the past.

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