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Once widely considered an impossibility--the stuff of science fiction novels--time travel may finally be achieved in the twenty-first century. In Breaking the Time Barrier, bestselling author Jenny Randles reveals the nature of recent, breakthrough experiments that are turning this fantasy into reality.
The race to build the first time machine is a fascinating saga that began about a century ago, when scientists such as Marconi and Edison and Einstein carried out research aimed at producing a working time machine. Today, physicists are conducting remarkable experiments that involve slowing the passage of information, freezing light, and breaking the speed of light--and thus the time barrier. In the 1960s we had the "space race." Today, there is a "time race" involving an underground community of working scientists who are increasingly convinced that a time machine of some sort is finally possible.
Here, Randles explores the often riveting motives of the people involved in this quest (including a host of sincere, if sometimes misguided amateurs), the consequences for society should time travel become a part of everyday life, and what evidence might indicate that it has already become reality. For, if time travel is going to happen--and some Russian scientists already claim to have achieved it in a lab--then its effects may already be apparent.
Once widely considered an impossibility--the stuff of science fiction novels--time travel may finally be achieved in the twenty-first century. In Breaking the Time Barrier, bestselling author Jenny Randles reveals the nature of recent, breakthrough experiments that are turning this fantasy into reality.
The race to build the first time machine is a fascinating saga that began about a century ago, when scientists such as Marconi and Edison and Einstein carried out research aimed at producing a working time machine. Today, physicists are conducting remarkable experiments that involve slowing the passage of information, freezing light, and breaking the speed of light--and thus the time barrier. In the 1960s we had the "space race." Today, there is a "time race" involving an underground community of working scientists who are increasingly convinced that a time machine of some sort is finally possible.
Here, Randles explores the often riveting motives of the people involved in this quest (including a host of sincere, if sometimes misguided amateurs), the consequences for society should time travel become a part of everyday life, and what evidence might indicate that it has already become reality. For, if time travel is going to happen--and some Russian scientists already claim to have achieved it in a lab--then its effects may already be apparent.
Preface: The Day that Time Stood Still
Introduction: The Race
Pre-1895: The Dawn of Time
1895: The First Time Traveler
1905: Relatively Speaking
1919: Bending Space and Time
1926: Other Dimensions
1935: Bridges Across Time
1937: Travel into the Future
1949: Time Travel into the Past
1963: Black Holes
1973: Back from the Future
1983: The Time Mirror
1984: Entangled Time
1988: Wormholes
1992: Chronology Protection
1994: Strings Attached
1996: Cheating Gravity
1997: Many Worlds, Many Timelines
1998: Quantum Foam
1999: Kaku's Time Machine
2000: Faster than Light
2001: Handshakes from the Future
2002: Twisting Time
2003: Beam Me Up
2004: Chrononauts
Epilogue: Beyond Time's Last Frontier
Appendix: Does Evidence of Time Travel Already Exist?
References
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Technik allg. |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 292 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780743492591 |
| ISBN-10: | 0743492595 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Randles, Jenny |
| Hersteller: | Pocket Books |
| Maße: | 216 x 140 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jenny Randles |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.04.2005 |
| Gewicht: | 0,415 kg |
Preface: The Day that Time Stood Still
Introduction: The Race
Pre-1895: The Dawn of Time
1895: The First Time Traveler
1905: Relatively Speaking
1919: Bending Space and Time
1926: Other Dimensions
1935: Bridges Across Time
1937: Travel into the Future
1949: Time Travel into the Past
1963: Black Holes
1973: Back from the Future
1983: The Time Mirror
1984: Entangled Time
1988: Wormholes
1992: Chronology Protection
1994: Strings Attached
1996: Cheating Gravity
1997: Many Worlds, Many Timelines
1998: Quantum Foam
1999: Kaku's Time Machine
2000: Faster than Light
2001: Handshakes from the Future
2002: Twisting Time
2003: Beam Me Up
2004: Chrononauts
Epilogue: Beyond Time's Last Frontier
Appendix: Does Evidence of Time Travel Already Exist?
References
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Technik allg. |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 292 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780743492591 |
| ISBN-10: | 0743492595 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Randles, Jenny |
| Hersteller: | Pocket Books |
| Maße: | 216 x 140 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jenny Randles |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.04.2005 |
| Gewicht: | 0,415 kg |
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