Time travel and warp drives : a scientific guide to shortcuts through time and space / Allen Everett and Thomas Roman.
By: Everett, Allen.
Contributor(s): Roman, Thomas.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013, c2012Edition: Paperback ed.Description: xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780226045481.Subject(s): Time travel | Space and timeGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 530.11| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Time, clocks, and reference frames -- Lorentz transformations and special relativity -- The light cone -- Forward time travel and the twin "paradox" -- "Forward, into the past" -- The arrow of time -- General relativity: curved space and warped time -- Wormholes and warp bubbles: beating the light barrier and possible time machines -- Banana peels and parallel worlds -- "Don't be so negative": exotic matter -- "To boldly go . . ."? -- Cylinders and strings -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Derivation of the Galilean velocity transformation -- Appendix 2. Derivation of the Lorentz transformations -- Appendix 3. Proof of the invariance of the spacetime interval -- Appendix 4. Argument to show the orientation of the x', t' axes relative to the x, t axes -- Appendix 5. Time dilation via light clocks -- Appendix 6. Hawking's theorem -- Appendix 7. Light pipe in the Mallett time machine.
Presents the current understanding of the nature of time and space, and an approachable explanation of Einstein's theory of special relativity; then goes on to connect these to possible time travel along with the accompanying paradoxes involved.