Paul J. Nahin: Time Machine Tales

Cover: 9783319488622 | Time Machine Tales | Paul J. Nahin | Taschenbuch | xlix | Englisch

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Beschreibung

This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no Tech Notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of TIME MACHINES. Writing about time travel is, today, a respectable business. It hasn¿t always been so. After all, time travel, prima facie, appears to violate a fundamental law of nature; every effect has a cause, with the cause occurring before the effect. Time travel to the past, however, seems to allow, indeed to demand, backwards causation, with an effect (the time traveler emerging into the past as he exits from his time machine) occurring before its cause (the time traveler pushing the start button on his machine¿s control panel to start his trip backward through time). Time Machine Tales includes new discussions of the advances by physicists and philosophers that have appeared since the publication of TIME MACHINES in 1999, examples of which are the chapters on time travel paradoxes. Those chapters have been brought up-to-date with the latest philosophical thinking on the paradoxes.

Über den Autor

Paul Nahin was born in California, and did all of his schooling there (Brea-Olinda High 1958, Stanford BS 1962, Caltech MS 1963 and - as a Howard Hughes Staff Doctoral Fellow - UC/Irvine PhD 1972, with all degrees in electrical engineering). He has taught at Harvey Mudd College, the Naval Postgraduate School and the Universities of New Hampshire (where he is now emeritus professor of electrical engineering) and Virginia.

Prof. Nahin has published a couple of dozen short science fiction stories in ANALOG, OMNI, and TWILIGHT ZONE magazines, and has written 14 books on mathematics and physics. He has given invited talks on mathematics at Bowdoin College, the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tennessee and Caltech, has appeared on National Public Radio's "Science Friday" show (discussing time travel) as well as on New Hampshire Public Radio's "The Front Porch" show (discussing imaginary numbers) and advised Boston's WGBH Public Television's "Nova" program on the script for their time travel episode. He gave the invited Sampson Lectures for 2011 in Mathematics at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine).

Zusammenfassung

A fun-to-read exploration of mind-bending time travel paradoxes

Thoroughly discusses the history of time travel in science fiction

Gives equal weight to the science and the philosophy of time travel

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Some First Words.- Introduction.- A Broad Look At Time Travel.- Philosophical Space and Time.- The Physics of Time Travel -Part I.-Philosophers, Physicists, and the Time Travel Paradoxes.- Communication With the Past.- The Physics of Time Travel -Part II.- Epilogue.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Appendix 3.- Glossary.- Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Technik , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xlix 383 S. 50 s/w Illustr. 3 farbige Illustr. 383 p. 53 illus. 3 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319488622
ISBN-10:	3319488627
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-48862-2
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nahin, Paul J.
Auflage:	1st edition 2017
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	235 x 155 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul J. Nahin
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.12.2016
Gewicht:	0,657 kg

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