Time Travel: Ten Short Lessons

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4214-4240-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 176 mm, Gewicht: 159 g

Reihe: Pocket Einstein Series

During times like these, who hasn't daydreamed about traveling forward or backward in time?

In Time Travel: Ten Short Lessons, popular-science master Brian Clegg gives a grand tour of the essential lessons in this game-changing area of physics, from the imagination of novelists to current research.

Einstein's special theory of relativity told us that time travel to the future was possible, and later his general theory of relativity showed us that loops in spacetime could exist, meaning that we might be able to bend time backward, too. But what are the practicalities of making time travel possible? What do we still need to know? How do we deal with paradoxical twists in time—and could quantum physics hold the answer? Packed full of easy-to-understand diagrams and fact boxes, these ten lessons cover all the basics, as well as the latest understanding and developments, to enlighten the nonscientist.

About the series: The Pocket Einstein series is a collection of essential pocket-sized guides for anyone looking to understand a little more about some of the most important and fascinating areas of science in the twenty-first century. Broken down into ten simple lessons and written by leading experts in their field, discover the ten most important takeaways from those areas of science you've always wanted to know more about.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clegg, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeitmessung: Physikalische und Technische Aspekte
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Relativität, Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Physik: Sachbuch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Lesson 1: Time Travel is More than Fiction
Lesson 2: How to Understand Time
Lesson 3: How to be a Corpsicle
Lesson 4: Relativity Opens Up Time Travel
Lesson 5: How to Visit the Past
Lesson 6: Why We Don't Get Time Tourists
Lesson 7: How to Speak to the Past
Lesson 8: We Need to Go Much Faster
Lesson 9: We Need a Bigger Time Machine
Lesson 10: Paradoxical Possibilities Ensue
Glossary
Further Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clegg, Brian
Best-selling science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge University. The author of numerous books, including What Do You Think You Are? The Science of What Makes You You and Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives, he is the editor of www.popularscience.co.uk.

Best-selling science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge University. The author of numerous books, including What Do You Think You Are? The Science of What Makes You You and Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives, he is the editor of www.popularscience.co.uk.