The new time travelers : a journey to the frontiers of physics / David Toomey.
Toomey, David M.
2007
QC173.59.S65 T66 2007 (Mapit)
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Title The new time travelers : a journey to the frontiers of physics / David Toomey.
Author Toomey, David M.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780393060133
0393060136
Imprint New York : W. W. Norton, c2007.
Language English
Description 391 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number QC173.59.S65 T66 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.11
Summary The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H.G. Wellsʾs 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. But in the 1990s, a group of theoretical physicists at Caltech undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel and concluded that it might be possible, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists around the world. Many of the figures involved in these theories are familiar: Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. These are the new time travelers, and this is the story of their work--a profoundly human endeavor marked by advances, retreats, and no small share of surprises.--From publisher description.
A fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. Also includes information on black holes, cosmic strings, David Deutsch, Albert Einstein, energy, Pierre Gassendi, Kurt Godel, J. Richard Gott, gravity, Alan Guth, Stephen Hawking, Charles Howard Hinton, interstellar travel, jinn, Andrei Lossev, Mike Morris, multiverse, Igor Novikov, paradoxes, Roger Penrose, quantum mechanics, general relativity, special relativity, -- Carl Sagan, science fiction, spacecraft, stars, Sun, Kip Thorne, thought experiments, time, time travel, universe, Matt Visser, H.G. Wells, John Archibald Wheeler, wormholes, Ulve Yurtsever, etc.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) and index.
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Acknowledgments
Prlogue
ch. 1. Intimations of spacetime
ch. 2. Einstein's radical idea
ch. 3. "Unphysical" time machines
ch. 4. Pastward time travel
seriously
ch. 5. Paradox
ch. 6. Cosmic strings and chronology protection
ch. 7. Novikov's wild ideas
ch. 8. A time travel summit
ch. 9. A parade of time machines
ch. 10. Time travel in another kind of spacetime
ch. 11. Explaining the apparent absence of time travelers
ch. 12. Time machines at the ends of time
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.

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