description: With his unique knack for making cutting-edge theoretical science effortlessly accessible, world-renowned physicist Paul Davies now tackles an issue that has boggled minds for Is time travel possible? The answer, insists Davies, is definitely yes—once you iron out a few kinks in the space-time continuum. With tongue placed firmly in cheek, Davies explains the theoretical physics that make visiting the future and revisiting the past possible, then proceeds to lay out a four-stage process for assembling a time machine and making it work. Wildly inventive and theoretically sound, How to Build a Time Machine is creative science at its best—illuminating, entertaining, and thought provoking.
language: English
title: How to Build a Time Machine
titlecomplete: How to Build a Time Machine
characters: Galileo Galilei, Hugh Everett, Adolf Hitler, Kip Thorne, Hendrik Casimir, J. Richard Gott, Ludwig Flamm, Isaac Newton, Joseph C. Hafele, J.B.S. Haldane, Plato, Richard E. Keating, Martin Kruskal, Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel, Roger Penrose, Roy Kerr, Kingsley Amis, Max Planck, T.S. Eliot, Karl Schwarzschild, Euclid, H.G. Wells, Frank J. Tipler, W.G. Unruh, Jodie Foster, David Deutsch, Michael Crichton, Carl Sagan, George Szekeres, Stephen Hawking, Nathan Rosen, Ray Bradbury
genres: Philosophy, Physics, Science, Nonfiction, Popular Science, Space, Time Travel, Self Help, Travel, Mathematics
ratings_count: 1249
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)