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How to build a time machine : the real science of time travel / Brian Clegg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 307 p. : illISBN:
  • 9781250024220
  • 1250024226
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC173.59.S65 C54 2011
Contents:
A glittering metal framework -- It's all relative -- Time past -- Time's arrow -- The time travellers' convention -- Back to the future -- Warp factor four -- Entangled web -- Phantoms of time -- Interstellar engineering -- Alice through the wormhole -- The Mallett Machine -- Killing grandfather -- Fact or fiction?
Summary: "In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the remarkable possibilities of real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. With the fascinating paradoxes of time travel echoing in our minds will we realize that travel into the future might never be possible? Or will we realize there is no limit on what can be achieved, and take on this ultimate challenge? Only time will tell"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-290) and index.

A glittering metal framework -- It's all relative -- Time past -- Time's arrow -- The time travellers' convention -- Back to the future -- Warp factor four -- Entangled web -- Phantoms of time -- Interstellar engineering -- Alice through the wormhole -- The Mallett Machine -- Killing grandfather -- Fact or fiction?

"In How to Build a Time Machine, Brian Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated. He explores the remarkable possibilities of real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. With the fascinating paradoxes of time travel echoing in our minds will we realize that travel into the future might never be possible? Or will we realize there is no limit on what can be achieved, and take on this ultimate challenge? Only time will tell"-- Provided by publisher.

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