Time: A Traveler's Guide
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 September 1998
- ISBN 9780195120424
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 234x160x33 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous figures 0
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Short description:
In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the most challenging questions scientists and philosophers ask. What is time? Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning or an end? What is eternity?
This book allows readers to travel through time and space, and they needn't be experts in physics. By the time readers finish this book they will understand such seemingly arcane concepts as space-time diagrams, light cones, time machines, cosmic moment lines, transcendent infinite speeds. Pickover offers an exuberant blend of state-of-the-art science, philosophical musings, and historical anecdote, juxtaposed with an on-going science fiction tale of time travellers who wish to hear Chopin play the piano in person.
Time: A Traveler's Guide will intrigue fans of science fiction and everyone curious about one of the more mind-boggling areas of scientific speculation.
Long description:
In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the most challenging questions scientists and philosophers ask. What is time? Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning or an end? What is eternity?
For centuries, these questions have intrigued mystics, philosophers, and scientists. Today physicists would agree that time is one of the strangest properties of our universe. This book allows readers to travel through time and space, and they needn't be experts in physics. By the time readers finish this book they will understand such seemingly arcane concepts as space-time diagrams, light cones, time machines, cosmic moment lines, transcendent infinite speeds, Lorentz transformations, causal linkages, superliminal and ultraliminal motions, Minkowskian space-times, Gödel universes, closed timelike curves, and Tipler cylinders.
This book is a resource for science fiction writers and readers, a playground for computer hobbyists, an adventure and education for beginning students in physics or philosophy.
the irrepressible and prolific Clifford Pickover gives us Time: A Traveler's Guide. He romps joyously through at least four perfectly respectable scientific routes to time travel: relativity, particle physics, quantum mechanics and psychology.
Table of Contents:
Preface
The Relativity of Simultaneity
Building an Einstein-Langevin Clock
The Lorentz Transformation
The Brain's Time Machine
Here-Now and Elsewhere in Space-Time
Three Important Rules for Time Travelers
Your Space or Mine?
How to Time Travel into the Future
Future Shock
Gravitational Time Dilation
Tachyons. Cosmic Moment Lines. Transcendent Infinite Speeds
Time Travel by Baloons and Strings
Can John F. Kennedy Be Saved?
Closed Timelike Curves in a Godelian Universe
Wormhole Time Machines
Adventures with Time
Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation
Some Concluding Musings and Thoughts
References
Appendix 1: The Grand Internet Time-Travel Survey
Appendix 2: Smorgesbord for Computer Junkies
