Time : a traveler's guide /
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? Picko...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of 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.