Breaking the Time Barrier
Gallery (Verlag)
978-0-7434-9259-1 (ISBN)
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 |
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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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