Breaking the Time Barrier - Jenny Randles

Breaking the Time Barrier

The Race to Build the First Time Machine

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2005
Gallery (Verlag)
978-0-7434-9259-1 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
From the bestselling author of THE AFTERLIFE, an awe inspiring, mind-bending ride through the cutting edge experiments that are making time travel a reality.
With more than a million and a half copies of her books in print, Jenny Randles has become one of the most respected writers on the paranormal of all time. The subject of her latest book, however, while once considered the province of the paranormal, has very recently become something much more: a science. BREAKING THE TIME BARRIER takes readers right into the labs that are working to prove that time travel is no fantasy. The quest for a time machine is an old one, and Randles' narrative takes readers back to the surprising efforts of Edison, Tesla and Marconi to achieve what was once considered impossible. Not until much later would developments in relativity, quantum mechanics and optical computers turn skeptics like Stephen Hawking into tentative believers. The result has been an explosion in scientific work and theory that can only be called incredible: altering the speed of light, replaying the energy of past events, alternative realities, and more. As scientists across the globe dabble in these and other tantalizing notions, the possibility of a real time machine grows stronger every day. Including thought-provoking speculations on what such developments would mean for our everyday lives, BREAKING THE TIME BARRIER is as bewitching as it is authoritative and deeply researched - a book that takes readers to the outer limits of a power that will change humanity forever.

Jenny Randles, who specialized in physics and geology at university, has sold more than one and a half million copies of her fifty published books. She has written articles for such journals as New Scientist, and lives in North Wales.

Contents

Preface: The Day that Time Stood Still

Introduction: The Race

Pre-1895: The Dawn of Time

1895: The First Time Traveler

1905: Relatively Speaking

1919: Bending Space and Time

1926: Other Dimensions

1935: Bridges Across Time

1937: Travel into the Future

1949: Time Travel into the Past

1963: Black Holes

1973: Back from the Future

1983: The Time Mirror

1984: Entangled Time

1988: Wormholes

1992: Chronology Protection

1994: Strings Attached

1996: Cheating Gravity

1997: Many Worlds, Many Timelines

1998: Quantum Foam

1999: Kaku's Time Machine

2000: Faster than Light

2001: Handshakes from the Future

2002: Twisting Time

2003: Beam Me Up

2004: Chrononauts

Epilogue: Beyond Time's Last Frontier

Appendix: Does Evidence of Time Travel Already Exist?

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.7.2005
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 309 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10 0-7434-9259-5 / 0743492595
ISBN-13 978-0-7434-9259-1 / 9780743492591
Zustand Neuware
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