Cosmic Wormholes: The Search for Interstellar Shortcuts - Softcover

Halpern, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452270294 ISBN 13: 9780452270299

Publisher: Plume, 1993

Synopsis

Examines the search for the existence of wormholes in space and discusses their possible future uses

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Halpern ( Time Journeys ) tackles the No. 1 recreational problem of theoretical physics: actual applications of special relativity to create the possibility of spacetime travel. The "intersteller shortcuts" in the subtitle is an oxymoron in present technical terminology, so Halpern himself is free to travel freely between the ground of astrophysical theory and the speculative time-travel canon. Indeed, he borrows his illustrations from Asimov and Heinlein as often as from Thorne and Morris. The result is more a colorful survey-style lecture script than a coherent theory, sufficient to general readers and certainly inspiring to a science fiction following but without a firm sense of scale of the science involved (and none of the mechanics or mathematics). Halpern's wormholes appear deus ex machina, nearly the last loop of this joyride through astrophysical theory, and somehow one can't help wanting to get back on line. Halpern teaches mathematics and physics at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0452270294
• ISBN 13: 9780452270299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256