Time travel [electronic resource] : a writer's guide to the real science of plausible time travel / Paul J. Nahin.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 200 p. :) illContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421401201
- 1421401207
- 808.3876/2 22
- PN3377.5.S3 N34 2011
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.
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