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Time Machines explores the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Godel, and others; scientific hypotheses about the direction of time, reversed time, and multidimensional time; time-travel paradoxes, and much more. Time Machines is highly readable even for those with no physics background. The text contains no equations or higher calculus: All the mathematics are contained in appendices that require nothing beyond differential and integral calculus. Time Machines contains the most extensive bibliography available on the fictional and scientific literature of time travel.
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Time Machines
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Table of Contents
PrologueCh. 1An Overview of Time Travel1Ch. 2On the Nature of Time, Spacetime, and the Fourth Dimension65Ch. 3The Arrows of Time123Ch. 4Time-Travel Paradoxes and (some of) Their Explanations167Epilogue241Notes and References249Tech Notes287Bibliography353Index403
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Time Machines
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Time Machines explores the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Godel, and others; scientific hypotheses about the direction of time, reversed time, and multidimensional time; time-travel paradoxes, and much more. Time Machines is highly readable even for those with no physics background. The text contains no equations or higher calculus: All the mathematics are contained in appendices that require nothing beyond differential and integral calculus. Time Machines contains the most extensive bibliography available on the fictional and scientific literature of time travel.
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Explores the ideas of time travel from the first account in English literature in 1733 to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. Topics include the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Godel, and others; scientific hypotheses about the direction of time, reversed time, and multidimensional time; and time-travel paradoxes. Decipherable to readers without physics background (all the nasty equations are hidden in the appendices). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Time Machines
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
PrologueCh. 1An Overview of Time Travel1Ch. 2On the Nature of Time, Spacetime, and the Fourth Dimension65Ch. 3The Arrows of Time123Ch. 4Time-Travel Paradoxes and (some of) Their Explanations167Epilogue241Notes and References249Tech Notes287Bibliography353Index403
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Time Machines explores the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Godel, and others; scientific hypotheses about the direction of time, reversed time, and multidimensional time; time-travel paradoxes, and much more. Time Machines is highly readable even for those with no physics background. The text contains no equations or higher calculus: All the mathematics are contained in appendices that require nothing beyond differential and integral calculus. Time Machines contains the most extensive bibliography available on the fictional and scientific literature of time travel.
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