Description
Book SynopsisIf you ever wanted to set up the latest and greatest grandfather paradox-or just wanted to know if the time-bending events in the latest pulp you read could ever happen-then this book is for you.
Trade ReviewAn exciting read covering every aspect of time travel. -- David Reneke Australasian Science Magazine 2011
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Time Travel in the Pulps
2. Special Relativity and Time Travel to the Future
3. Time Travel to the Past
4. Hyperspace
5. Time as the Fourth Dimension
6. The Black Universe
7. When General Relativity Made Time Travel Honest...
8. Paradoxes: Changing the Past, Causal Loops, and Sex
9. Time Machines that Physicists Have Already 'Invented'
10. Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Into the Past
11. Quantum Gravity, Splitting Universes, and Time Machines
12. Reading the Physics Literature for Story Ideas
Glossary of Selected Terms
Bibligraphy
Index
