The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
by David Toomey
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Author: David ToomeyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-01
ISBN: 0393060136
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Book Review: I'm not sure I follow you, draw a picture
Summary: 4 Stars
Many casual lay readers may find some of these intriguing space time concepts difficult to visualize. Many more and better pictures would have made this book more accessible. For the description of dynamic ideas like "time machines" a picture is indeed worth a thousand words. If you have seen a Nova TV program on space time you know what I mean.
Summary of The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time?Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original?
In the last decade of the twentieth century a group of theoretical physicists at the California Institute of Technology undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists working at universities and institutes around the world.
Many of the figures involved 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. It is a fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics. 15 illustrations.
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