Time A Traveler's Guide |
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| Author:
| Pickover, Clifford A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-512042-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1998 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $93.00 |
Book Description:
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In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the most challenging questions scientists and philosophers ask. What is time? Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning or an end? What is eternity? This book allows readers to travel through time and space, and they needn't be experts in physics. By the time readers finish this book they will understand such seemingly arcane concepts as space-time diagrams,...
More DescriptionIn Time: A Traveler's Guide, Clifford A. Pickover strives to answer the most challenging questions scientists and philosophers ask. What is time? Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning or an end? What is eternity? This book allows readers to travel through time and space, and they needn't be experts in physics. By the time readers finish this book they will understand such seemingly arcane concepts as space-time diagrams, light cones, time machines, cosmic moment lines, transcendent infinite speeds. Pickover offers an exuberant blend of state-of-the-art science, philosophical musings, and historical anecdote, juxtaposed with an on-going science fiction tale of time travellers who wish to hear Chopin play the piano in person. Time: A Traveler's Guide will intrigue fans of science fiction and everyone curious about one of the more mind-boggling areas of scientific speculation.