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Title

Time : a traveler's guide / by Clifford A. Pickover.

Author

Pickover, Clifford A.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Description

xviii, 285 p. : ill. :; 24 cm.

Summary

In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Pickover takes readers to the forefront of science as he illuminates the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe - time itself. Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning and an end? What is eternity? Pickover includes numerous diagrams so readers have no trouble following along, computer code that lets us write simulations for various aspects of time travel, and an on-going science fiction tale featuring quirky characters who yearn to travel back in time to hear Chopin play in person.

Subject

• Space and time
• Time travel
• Time

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Relativity of Simultaneity -- 2. Building an Einstein-Langevin Clock -- 3. The Lorentz Transformation -- 4. The Brain's Time Machine -- 5. Here-Now and Elsewhere in Spacetime -- 6. Three Important Rules for Time Travelers -- 7. Your Space or Mine? -- 8. How to Time Travel into the Future -- 9. Future Shock -- 10. Gravitational Time Dilation -- 11. Tachyons, Cosmic Moment Lines, Transcendent Infinite Speeds -- 12. Time Travel by Balloons and Strings -- 13. Can John F. Kennedy Be Saved? -- 14. Closed Timelike Curves in a Godelian Universe -- 15. Wormhole Time Machine -- 16. Adventures with Time -- 17. Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation -- 18. Some Concluding Musings and Thoughts.

ISBN

0195120426 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97022369^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library