Bangs, crunches, whimpers, and shrieks: singularities and acausalities in relativistic spacetimes

Abstract

1. Introducing Spacetime Singularities and Acausalities 2. Defining, Characterizing, and Proving the Existence 3. Cosmic Censorship 4. Supertasks 5. The Big Bang and the Horizon Problem 6. Time Travel 7. Eternal Recurrence, Cyclic Time, and All That 8. Afterword