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The New Time Travelers

- A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics

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  • Engelsk
  • 391 sider

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Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the paradoxes of time travel. What would happen if a time traveler tried to change history? Would some force or law of nature prevent him? Or would his action produce a "new" history, branching away from the original?In the last decade of the twentieth century a group of theoretical physicists at the California Institute of Technology undertook a serious investigation of the possibility of pastward time travel, inspiring a serious and sustained study that engaged more than thirty physicists working at universities and institutes around the world.Many of the figures involved are familiar: Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne; others are names known mostly to physicists. 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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  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal391
  • Udgivelsesdato01-07-2007
  • ISBN139780393060133
  • Forlag Ww Norton & Co
  • FormatHardback
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  • Vægt718 g
  • Dybde3,3 cm
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    10 cm
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    16,8 cm
    24,1 cm

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