Time: A Traveler's Guide by Clifford A Pickover

Time: A Traveler's Guide by Clifford A Pickover

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This text strives to answer the questions posed by time - what is time, is time travel possible, is time real, does it flow in one direction only? Issues addressed include light cones, time machines, cosmic moment lines and Lorentz transformations. Readers do not need to be experts in physics.

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Time: A Traveler's Guide by Clifford A Pickover

This text strives to answer the questions posed by time - what is time, is time travel possible, is time real, does it flow in one direction only? Issues addressed include light cones, time machines, cosmic moment lines and Lorentz transformations. Readers do not need to be experts in physics.
the irrepressible and prolific Clifford Pickover gives us Time: A Traveler's GuideHe romps joyously through at least four perfectly respectable scientific routes to time travel: relativity, particle physics, quantum mechanics and psychology. * New Scientist *
Clifford A. Pickover is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research Center.
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ISBN 13 9780195130966
ISBN 10 0195130960
Title Time: A Traveler's Guide
Author Clifford A Pickover
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 1999-09-30
Number of pages 304
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