Time travel /

Time Travel explains science to help you make your fiction plausible. You'll leave for the future from a solid theoretical launching pad - and you'll see why the idea of traveling to the past violates no known laws of physics. Time Travel explores the theories of relativity, shows you the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nahin, Paul J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, ©1997.
Series:	Science fiction writing series.
Subjects:	Science fiction > Authorship. Science fiction > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Time travel in literature. Science fiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1. Time Travel in the Pulps
Ch. 2. Special Relativity and Time Travel to the Future
Ch. 3. Time Travel to the Past
Ch. 4. Hyperspace
Ch. 5. Time as the Fourth Dimension
Ch. 6. The Block Universe
Ch. 7. When General Relativity Made Time Travel Honest
Ch. 8. Paradoxes: Changing the Past, Causal Loops, and Sex
Ch. 9. Time Machines that Physicists Have Already "Invented"
Ch. 10. Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Into the Past.
Ch. 11. Quantum Gravity, Splitting Universes, and Time Machines
Ch. 12. Reading the Physics Literature for Story Ideas.