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Preface.- 1 Introduction: Discerning the Real, the Possible and the Impossible.- 1.1 The first sci-fi movie.- 1.1.1 exploring the science in Le Voyage dans la Lune.- 1.2 The first literary work of science fiction.- 1.3 Reference frames, revisited.- 1.4 Roadmap to the rest of the book.- 2 What is the Nature of Space and Time? (the physics of space travel and time travel).- 2.1 Changing perspectives through history.- 2.2 Newton's Laws.- 2.3 Einstein and relativity.- 2.3.1 special relativity and time dilation.- 2.3.2 general relativity and distortion of spacetime.- 2.3.3 gravitational waves.- 2.3.4 faster than light, but not faster than light.- 2.4 Stephen Hawking, black holes, wormholes and quantum gravity.- 2.4.1 black holes.- 2.4.2 the multiverse hypothesis.- 2.4.3 wormholes.- 2.5 Other time travel scenarios.- 3 What is the Universe Made of? (matter, energy and interactions).- 3.1 The Standard Model of Particle Physics.- 3.2 The atomic nucleus: protons, neutrons, isotopes and radioacti

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