Build Your Own Time Machine - Softcover

Brian Clegg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0715645188 ISBN 13: 9780715645185

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 2013

Synopsis

In Build Your Own Time Machine, acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg takes inspiration from his childhood favourites, Doctor Who and H.G. Wells, to explain the nature of time. He explores the amazing possibilities of quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders and wormholes in space. How did the theories of one man change the way time is perceived? Why wouldnt H.G. Wellss time machine have worked? And what would we need to do to make a real one?

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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 *

Edition details

• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0715645188
• ISBN 13: 9780715645185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320