Overview
- 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: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Science and Fiction (SCIFICT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Reviews
“Paul Nahin is THE authority on the intricate physics of time travel, paradoxes and all. He makes the field as clear as it can be.” (Gregory Benford, author of “Timescape”)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Time Machine Tales
Book Subtitle: The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
Authors: Paul J. Nahin
Series Title: Science and Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48864-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48862-2Published: 30 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48864-6Published: 24 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-1188
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIX, 383
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Physics, Popular Science in Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory