Time travel
Nahin, Paul J.
Time travel a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel / [electronic resource] : Paul J. Nahin. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xviii, 200 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Originally published: Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.
Time travel in the pulps -- Special relativity and time travel in the future -- Time travel to the past -- Hyperspace -- Time as the fourth dimension -- The block universe -- When general relativity made time travel honest -- Paradoxes: changing the past, causal loops, and sex -- Time machines that physicists have already 'invented' -- Faster-than-light (FTL) into the past -- Quantum gravity, splitting universes, and time machines -- Reading the physics literature for story ideas.
9781421401201 1421401207
Fourth dimension.
Time travel in literature.
Science fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Science fiction--Authorship.
Electronic books.
PN3377.5.S3 / N34 2011
808.3876/2
Time travel a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel / [electronic resource] : Paul J. Nahin. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xviii, 200 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Originally published: Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197) and index.
Time travel in the pulps -- Special relativity and time travel in the future -- Time travel to the past -- Hyperspace -- Time as the fourth dimension -- The block universe -- When general relativity made time travel honest -- Paradoxes: changing the past, causal loops, and sex -- Time machines that physicists have already 'invented' -- Faster-than-light (FTL) into the past -- Quantum gravity, splitting universes, and time machines -- Reading the physics literature for story ideas.
9781421401201 1421401207
Fourth dimension.
Time travel in literature.
Science fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Science fiction--Authorship.
Electronic books.
PN3377.5.S3 / N34 2011
808.3876/2