Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction

by Paul J. Nahin

Book Overview

Time Machines explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387985719
• ISBN13: 9780387985718
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 628 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"