The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics (eBook)

David Toomey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
400 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-07837-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;new"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 15 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• ISBN-10: 0-393-07837-X / 039307837X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-07837-4 / 9780393078374