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If 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.

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An exciting read covering every aspect of time travel. -- David Reneke Australasian Science Magazine 2011

Table of Contents

Preface
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

Time Travel

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 27 May 2011
      ISBN-13 9781421400822
      978-1421400822
      ISBN-10 1421400820
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      If 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 Review
      An exciting read covering every aspect of time travel. -- David Reneke Australasian Science Magazine 2011

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      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

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