Time Machines - Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | United States of America |
| Copyright | 1999 |
| Second Impression | 2001 |
| Pages / Font | 628 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-387-98571-8 |
| Chapters | A Sample of Things to Come Foreword by Kip S. Thorne What's New in the Second Edition Prologue to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the First Edition Chapter 1 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 Traveling to the Future Traveling to the Past Who Else Might Be Interested in Time Travel Some Problems Backward in Time - Can It Really Be Done? The Problem of Paradoxes The Fictional Origins of "Change the Past" Ways to Avoid Paradoxes Where Are All the Time Travelers? Skepticism and Time Travelers Einstein, Gödel, and the Past Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes, Singularities, and Time Travel Tipler's Time Machine Chapter 2 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 Monsters in Hyperspace Space as the Fourth Dimension Time as the Fourth Dimension H.G. Wells on Space and Time Spacetime and the Fourth Dimension Spacetime, Omniscience, and Free Will Does the Future Already Exist? Is the Past Still Around? Chapter 3 The Arrows of Time The Language of Time Travel Does Time Have a Direction? Cause and Effect Backward Causation What Does "Now" Mean? Irreversibility Worlds in Reverse The Philosophy and Physics of Reversed Time Entropy as Time's Arrow Other Arrows of Time Multidimensional Time Chapter 4 Time Travel Paradoxes and (some of) Their Explanations Paradoxes Early Science Fiction Speculations on Time Travel Paradoxes Two Basic Time Travel Paradoxes Can the Present Change the Past? Can the Past Be Un-Done? Changing the Past vs. Affecting it Why Can't a Time Traveler Kill His Grandfather? Quantum Mechanics and Time Travel Causal Loops Sexual Paradoxes Maxwell's Equations and Advanced Effects Communication with the Past Wheeler and Feynman and Their Bilking Paradox Absorber Theory and Signaling to the Past Tachyonic Signals, Spooky Actions, and the Bell Antitelephone Epilogue Notes and References Tech Notes 1. What Time Is Now? 2. Time Dilation via the Photon Clock 3. The Lorentz Transformation 4.Spacetime Diagrams, Light Cones, Metrics, and Invariant Intervals 5. Proper Time, Curved World Lines, and the Twin Paradox 6. A High-Speed Rocket Is a One-Way Time Machine to the Future 7. Superluminal Speeds, Backward Time Travel, and Warp Drives, or Faster-Than-Light Into the Past 8. Backward Time Travel According to Gödel and Tipler 9. Wormhole Time Machines 10. "Solving" the Einstein Gravitational Field Equations, Unphysical Mass-Energy, and the Cosmic String Time Machine 11. Time and Gravity Glossary of Important Terms and Concepts Bibliography Bibliographic Adieu Index Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_J._Nahin |
| Notes | Second Edition with 53 Illustrations Copyright 1999 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc Printed on acid-free paper |
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