Time Travel: A Writer's guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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xviii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: Cincinnati : Writer's Digest Books, 1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
Description
Time travel in the pulps -- Special relativity and time travel in the future -- Time travel to the past -- Hyperspace -- Time as the fourth dimension -- The block universe -- When general relativity made time travel honest -- Paradoxes: changing the past, causal loops, and sex -- Time machines that physicists have already 'invented' -- Faster-than-light (FTL) into the past -- Quantum gravity, splitting universes, and time machines -- Reading the physics literature for story ideas.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nahin, P. J. (2011). Time Travel: A Writer's guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel . Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nahin, Paul J. 2011. Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nahin, Paul J. Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nahin, Paul J. Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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