Time Travel for Beginners
Time Travel for Beginners
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Summary
Scientists have found that the laws of nature permit time travel. The two greatest ideas in 20th Century physics - general relativity and quantum mechanics - can be applied to demonstrate the possibility of time travel. This book explains the concepts in simple language for beginners.
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Time Travel for Beginners by Mary Gribbin
Physicists can't yet build time machines but they know that the laws of physics would allow one to exist. Scientists are investigating the manipulation of potential 'natural' time machines such as black holes, and other possibilities. All of these are discussed - not the detail of the mathematical equations, just the results - together with the implications of time travel, such as the 'granny paradox': a time traveller could go back in time, accidentally kill their granny, so the traveller's mother would never be born, so they would never be born, and so on. The Gribbins explain how such paradoxes are, in fact, prevented.
John Gribbin is an internationally successful science writer and broadcaster whose many books for adults include In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, Almost Everyone's Guide to Science, Q is for Quantum and Science: A History. His wife Mary is a teacher with a special gift for communicating difficult concepts. They have co-written several titles for adults and children - the latter include Time and the Universe, winner of the TES Junior Information Book Award (Hodder), Eyewitness Time and Space (DK) and Big Numbers (Icon).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780340957028 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340957026 |
| Title | Time Travel for Beginners |
| Author | Mary Gribbin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hachette Children's Group |
| Year published | 2008-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |