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000319912 1001_ $$aToomey, David M.
000319912 24514 $$aThe new time travelers :$$ba journey to the frontiers of physics /$$cDavid Toomey.
000319912 250__ $$a1st ed.
000319912 260__ $$aNew York :$$bW. W. Norton,$$cc2007.
000319912 300__ $$a391 p., [4] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000319912 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 353-367) and index.
000319912 50500 $$tAcknowledgments --$$tPrlogue --$$gch. 1.$$tIntimations of spacetime --$$gch. 2.$$tEinstein's radical idea --$$gch. 3.$$t"Unphysical" time machines --$$gch. 4.$$tPastward time travel-- seriously --$$gch. 5.$$tParadox --$$gch. 6.$$tCosmic strings and chronology protection --$$gch. 7.$$tNovikov's wild ideas --$$gch. 8. A$$ttime travel summit --$$gch. 9. A$$tparade of time machines --$$gch. 10.$$tTime travel in another kind of spacetime --$$gch. 11.$$tExplaining the apparent absence of time travelers --$$gch. 12.$$tTime machines at the ends of time --$$tEpilogue --$$tNotes --$$tGlossary --$$tBibliography --$$tIndex.
000319912 520__ $$aThe 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.
000319912 520__ $$aA fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. Also includes information on black holes, cosmic strings, David Deutsch, Albert Einstein, energy, Pierre Gassendi, Kurt Godel, J. Richard Gott, gravity, Alan Guth, Stephen Hawking, Charles Howard Hinton, interstellar travel, jinn, Andrei Lossev, Mike Morris, multiverse, Igor Novikov, paradoxes, Roger Penrose, quantum mechanics, general relativity, special relativity, -- Carl Sagan, science fiction, spacecraft, stars, Sun, Kip Thorne, thought experiments, time, time travel, universe, Matt Visser, H.G. Wells, John Archibald Wheeler, wormholes, Ulve Yurtsever, etc.
000319912 650_0 $$aSpace and time.
000319912 650_0 $$aTime travel.
000319912 650_0 $$aPhysics.
000319912 85200 $$bgen$$hQC173.59.S65$$iT66$$i2007
000319912 85641 $$3Table of contents only$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0713/2007011307.html
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