Time Machines
Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics and Science Fiction
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1994
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American Institute of Physics (Verlag)
978-1-56396-371-1 (ISBN)
American Institute of Physics (Verlag)
978-1-56396-371-1 (ISBN)
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A study of how time travel has been portrayed in fiction from the 18th century to the present. The author also discusses how modern physicists are now giving serious attention to what was once dismissed as sheer fantasy.
A lively study of how time travel has been portrayed in fiction from the 18th century to the present. The author also discusses how modern physicists are now giving serious attention to what was once dismissed as sheer fantasy. Technical appendices, using only first college calculus, are supplied for those with a mathematical bent. This book is intended for general science readers.
A lively study of how time travel has been portrayed in fiction from the 18th century to the present. The author also discusses how modern physicists are now giving serious attention to what was once dismissed as sheer fantasy. Technical appendices, using only first college calculus, are supplied for those with a mathematical bent. This book is intended for general science readers.
An overview of time travel - the mystery of time travel; machineless time travel without dreams or drugs; time travel by machine; H.G. Wells - why his time machine won't work; travelling to the future; on the nature of time, spacetime and the fourth dimension - what is time? speculations on the reality of time; has the past been for ever?; time and clocks; hyperspace and wormholes; the arrows of time - language of time travel; does time have a direction?; cause and effect; what does "now" mean?; irreversibility; time-travel paradoxes and (some of) their explanations - paradoxes; early science fiction speculations on time-travel paradoxes; can the present change the past?; can the past be un-done?; changing vs. affecting the past. Epilogue.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.1994 |
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| Zusatzinfo | frontispiece, line figures and tables throughout |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 598 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-56396-371-X / 156396371X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-56396-371-1 / 9781563963711 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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