Time Travel - Ten Short Lessons

"In Time Travel: Ten Short Lessons, popular-science master Brian Clegg gives a grand tour of the essential lessons in this game-changing area of physics, from the imagination of novelists to current research. Einstein's special theory of relativity told us that time travel to the future was possible, and later his general theory of relativity showed us that loops in spacetime could exist, meaning that we might be able to bend time backward, too. But what are the practicalities of making time travel possible? What do we still need to know? How do we deal with paradoxical twists in time--and could quantum physics hold the answer? Packed full of easy-to-understand diagrams and fact boxes, these ten lessons cover all the basics, as well as the latest understanding and developments, to enlighten the nonscientist"--

About the author

Best-selling science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge University. The author of numerous books, including What Do You Think You Are? The Science of What Makes You You and Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives, he is the editor of www.popularscience.co.uk.

Product details

• Authors: Clegg, Brian Clegg, Clegg Brian
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781421442402
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4240-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Pocket Einstein; Pocket Einstein Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Time, SCIENCE / Physics / Relativity, Physics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Relativity physics, Time (chronology), time systems & standards, theory of relativity;quantum physics;black holes