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Time travel a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel

Title
Time travel [electronic resource] : a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel / Paul J. Nahin.
Author
Nahin, Paul J.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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Description
1 online resource (xviii, 200 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Time travel (Online)
Alternative Title
Time travel (Online)
Subject
  • Science fiction > Authorship
  • Science fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc
  • Time travel in literature
  • Fourth dimension
Note
  • Originally published: Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books, 1997.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Time travel in the pulps -- Special relativity and time travel in the future -- Time travel to the past -- Hyperspace -- Time as the fourth dimension -- The block universe -- When general relativity made time travel honest -- Paradoxes: changing the past, causal loops, and sex -- Time machines that physicists have already 'invented' -- Faster-than-light (FTL) into the past -- Quantum gravity, splitting universes, and time machines -- Reading the physics literature for story ideas.
LCCN
2010938406
OCLC
ssj0000606735
Author
Nahin, Paul J.
Title
Time travel [electronic resource] : a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel / Paul J. Nahin.
Imprint
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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