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These are the new time travelers, and this is the story of their work--a profoundly human endeavor marked by advances, retreats, and no small share of surprises. It is a fantastic journey to the frontiers of physics.
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Click I Have iTunes to open it now. The New Time Travelers: View More by This Author. Description The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: This is not to say that physicists uncritically accept the idea but simply that it is now a topic for rigorous scientific discussion. Because Toomey Stormchasers spends as much time describing the personalities of those investigating this odd field as he does the subject's technical aspects, he is able to bring the topic fully to life.
The contributions made by Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and Kip Thorne, in addition to other lesser-known physicists, are described, but even the author's fine writing is not able to make all of the highly technical material easily understood. Given that time travel, if it can occur at all, is likely to involve wormholes and worldlines, multiverses and Minkowski diagrams, as well as negative energy and naked singularities, this is not surprising. Be the first to ask a question about The New Time Travelers.
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Jul 05, Ryan Bailey rated it really liked it. I really liked this. This non-fiction book about time travel walked me through both the physics and the history behind the scientific community's best understanding of time travel. I learned about the various kinds of possible methods for time travel, the possible paradoxes and how to get around them, and some of the things we learned the universe by trying to figure this stuff out.
Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. Other corollaries of relativity hold out more intriguing possibilities. Passerines 2-Volume Set 2. Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original? Physical Sciences Physical Sciences: This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Butterfly Field Guide Mug 2.
The highlight was the final chapter, which I could read ten more times without unpacking it all the way. A couple o I really liked this. A couple of the prevailing theories of the creation of the universe are not only fascinating, but may tie into my religion extremely directly.
I appreciated how the author didn't shy away from the hard material, but made sure to walk a layman like myself through it all. If the book had been a little tighter, and focused a little less on the personal histories and experiences of the physicists which I acknowledge some readers probably appreciate , I would have given it five stars.
Sep 17, Crystal Lynn Kamm rated it liked it. This book was a detailed study of time travel, but I was disappointed that it barely followed through on its promise to connect science with science fiction. Some parts of it were comprehensive, but there is very little I can do with what I've learned.
I'm a science enthusiast, but not a scientist, only a writer. If you have reasons for reading this that are NOT "I'm writing a scifi novel about time travel, someone help!
Oct 31, Grace Morris rated it liked it Shelves: I was really hoping that this book was going to go into more of the physics of time travel, however this book is more the biography of physicists. Even though it wasn't exactly what I wanted, I really enjoyed reading about the different people and because of this book I want to know more about these people.
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