Time Travel in Einstein's Universe
The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
A Princeton astrophysicist explores whether journeying to the past or future is scientifically possible in this intriguing volume (Neil deGrasse Tyson). It was H. G. Wells who coined the term time machine-but the concept of time travel, both forward and backward, has always provoked fascination and yearning. It has mostly been dismissed as an impossibility in the world of physics; yet theories posited by Einstein, and advanced by scientists including Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne, suggest that the phenomenon could actually occur. Building on these ideas, J. Richard Gott, a professor who has written on the subject for Scientific American, T…
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- ISBN: 978-0-547-52657-7
- EAN: 9780547526577
- Produktnummer: 27876809
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'771 KB
Über den Autor
J. RICHARD GOTT III is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University. For fourteen years he served as the chairman of the judges of the National Westinghouse and Intel Science Talent Search, the premier science competition for high school students. The recipient of the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Gott has written on time travel for Time and on other topics for Scientific American, New Scientist, and American Scientist.
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