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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: time travel dialogue
  name:
    name part: Carroll, John W.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Juvenile works.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (98 pages) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: "Is time travel just a confusing plot device deployed by science fiction authors and Hollywood filmmakers to amaze and amuse? Or might empirical data prompt a scientific hypothesis of time travel? Structured on a fascinating dialogue involving a distinguished physicist, Dr. Rufus, a physics graduate student and a computer scientist this book probes an experimentally supported hypothesis of backwards time travel - and in so doing addresses key metaphysical issues, such as causation, identity over time and free will. The setting is the Jefferson National Laboratory during a period of five days in 2010. Dr. Rufus's experimental search for the psi-lepton and the resulting intractable data spurs the discussion on time travel. She and her two colleagues are pushed by their observations to address the grandfather paradox and other puzzles about backwards causation, with attention also given to causal loops, multi-dimensional time, and the prospect that only the present exists. Sensible solutions to the main puzzles emerge, ultimately advancing the case for time travel really being possible. A Time Travel Dialogue addresses the possibility of time travel, approaching familiar paradoxes in a rigorous, engaging, and fun manner. It follows in the long philosophical tradition of using dialogue to present philosophical ideas and arguments, but is ground breaking in its use of the dialogue format to introduce readers to the metaphysics of time travel, and is also distinctive in its use of lab results to drive philosophical analysis. The discussion of data that might decide whether time is one-dimensional (one timeline) or multi-dimensional (branching time) is especially novel."--Publisher's website.
  table of contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Monday -- 2. Tuesday -- 3. Wednesday -- 4. Thursday -- 5. Friday -- Notes -- Credits and Acknowledgements.
  target audience: juvenile
  note: John W. Carroll [and others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references in notes (pages 77-78).
  subject:
    topic: Time travel
    genre: Juvenile literature
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, space and time
  subject:
    topic: Humanities
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics and science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Time (chronology), time systems and standards
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Time
  subject:
    topic: Time travel
  classification: BF1045.T55 .T564 2014eb
  classification: 530.11
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Time travel dialogue
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, ©2014
    physical description:
      extent: 81 pages
  identifier: 9781783740390
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  identifier: 9781783740406
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  identifier: 9781783740413
  identifier: 9781783740383
  identifier: 9781783740376
  identifier: 22573/cttbvh1p5 JSTOR
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  record info:
    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 150107
    record change date: 20191021080136.0
    record identifier: in00004066385
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng