Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel - Hardcover

Brian Clegg

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9780715642900: Build Your Own Time Machine: The Real Science of Time Travel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0715642901 ISBN 13: 9780715642900
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Company, 2012

Synopsis

Although HG Wellsâ€s Victorian time machine would not have worked, there is no law of physics that prevents travel through the fourth dimension. Brian Clegg combines his enthusiasm for science fiction with his insights as a writer on real science to explore ways in which time travel could theoretically be achieved. He also traces the development of our modern understanding of time, from Einsteinâ€s first daydreams about the speed of light to neutrino experiments and the latest theories about wormholes.

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About the Author

Brian Clegg was born in Lancashire. He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University before doing an MA at Lancaster University. His books have been translated into several languages and include Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of the Universe, A Brief History of Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable and Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from your Aeroplane Window. He has lectured at the Royal Institution in London and has spoken at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He runs www.popularscience.co.uk and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Brian lives in Wiltshire with his wife and twin children.

Review

Brian Clegg conjectures on the totally conjectural world of time and space travel and brings it all beautifully down to earth. Brilliant -- Johnny Ball Clegg proves himself to be a lucid guide to the often complex science of time travel. His ambitious book covers more or less the whole of twentieth-century physics from relativity to string theory * Times Literary Supplement * Clegg's enjoyable exposition of how human time travel might be possible ... give[s] some unusually lucid scientific explanations * Guardian *

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Publisher
Gerald Duckworth & Company
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0715642901
ISBN 13 
9780715642900
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
311
Rating
  • 3.59 out of 5 stars
    323 ratings by Goodreads

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